florae

Variant of flora

noun

  1. a feminine name
  2. Rom. Myth. the goddess of flowers
    1. pl. floras or florae the plants of a specified region or time: the flora of Africa
    2. a descriptive, systematic list of such plants

Origin: L < flos, flower: adopted by Carolus Linnaeus (1745) as term for the plants of a region

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