noun
- a feminine name
- Rom. Myth. the goddess of flowers
- pl. floras -·ras or florae -·rae (-ē) the plants of a specified region or time the flora of Africa
- a descriptive, systematic list of such plants
Etymology:
L < flos, flower: adopted by Carolus Linnaeus (1745) as term for the plants of a region
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