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# flora

noun (flora – uncountable; floras, rarely)

«flora» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. All the plants that grow in a particular place or at a particular time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#m1)
2. The tiny living things, especially bacteria, that live in a part of the body: «gut flora». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#m2)
3. (a name) Flora is a girl's name; Flora was also the Roman goddess of flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#m3)

### In the lessons

A science and geography word, often paired: «flora and fauna» means plants and animals of a place, like «the flora and fauna of Australia». In nature lessons we note the local flora on walks. Comes from Latin «flos», flower. In stories, Flora may be a girl's name.

### Examples

- The flora of the rainforest includes thousands of kinds of plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x1)
- We studied the flora and fauna of the river bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x2)
- Mountain flora must survive cold wind and snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x3)
- The island has strange flora found nowhere else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x4)
- Healthy gut flora help you digest food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x5)
- Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x6)
- Flora, who typified the season of Spring, is generally represented as a lovely maiden, garlanded with flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/#x7)

### Note

Usually uncountable («the flora of Ireland»). Flora = plants; fauna = animals – an easy pair to mix up. As a name it takes a capital F.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «flora» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flora/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«flora» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/flora.html) on Mova free.