What's meaning by the name flora !?

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Answer 1

Flora comes from (and is) the Latin word for flower.  Today, it usually refers to the plants found in a particular place.  The animals found in that place would be called fauna.

Answer 2

Derived from Latin flos meaning "flower". Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr the west wind. It has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France.

Answer 3

Flower

Answer 4

As a given name flora would be taken as a 'flower ', sounds prettier & more feminine .otherwise used for the plants that grow in a given area ,usually used together with fauna   ( animals that belong to that place )  You would say 'the flora & fauna of ........ '

Answer 5

The boy's and girl's name Flora \f-lo-ra\ is of Latin origin, and its meaning is "flower". In mythology, the name of the Roman goddess of springtime. Also the name of a ninth century Spanish martyr-saint. Flora Macdonald was a Scottish heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters.  

Answer 6

Plants considered as a group, especially the plants of a particular country, region, or time.

A treatise describing the plants of a region or time.

The bacteria and other microorganisms that normally inhabit a bodily organ or part: intestinal flora.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: flora

All species of plants that are found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Six floral kingdoms are commonly distinguished: Boreal (Holarctic), Paleotropical, Neotropical, South African (Capensic), Australian, and Antarctic. These kingdoms are further broken down into subkingdoms and regions, over which there is some dispute.

Wine Lover's Companion: Flora

[FLOR-uh] The fairly rare white-wine grape that is a cross of gewürztraminer and sémillon developed in the 1950s by the university of california, davis. As the name suggests, the wines have a floral quality with a high degree of spiciness. They're usually vinified medium-sweet to sweet. Never very popular, Flora plantings are now under a hundred acres.

Science Dictionary: flora

(flawr-uh)

Plants, especially the plants of a particular place and time.

Gardener's Dictionary: flora

All the kinds of plants, both native and exotic, that grow wild in an area.

In botany, flora (plural: floras or florae) has two meanings. The first meaning, or flora of an area or of time period, refers to all plant life occurring in an area or time period, especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life. The second meaning refers to a book or other work which describes the plant species occurring in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification. Some classic and modern floras are listed below.

The term flora comes from Latin language Flora, the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology. The corresponding term for animal life is fauna. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. In relation to all the flora and fauna of a region, it is collectively referred to as biota.

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