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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLO'RA, n. [See Floral.]
1. In antiquity, the goddess of flowers.
2. In modern usage, a catalogue or account of flowers or plants.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology]
2: (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion [syn: plant, flora, plant life]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural floras; also florae) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, from Latin flor-, flos Date: 1777 1. a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period 2. plant or bacterial life; especially such life characteristic of a region, period, or special environment <fossil flora> <intestinal flora> — compare fauna

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. floras or florae) 1 the plants of a particular region, geological period, or environment. 2 a treatise on or list of these. Etymology: mod.L f. the name of the goddess of flowers f. L flos floris flower

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flora Flo"ra, n. [L., the goddess of flowers, from flos, floris, flower. See Flower.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of flowers and spring. 2. (Bot.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You can refer to plants as flora, especially the plants growing in a particular area. (FORMAL) ...the variety of food crops and flora which now exists in Dominica. N-UNCOUNT-COLL

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Plants (of a country), vegetation, vegetable life.

Moby Thesaurus

Ceres, Cora, Demeter, Dionysos, Dionysus, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Kore, Persephassa, Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Proserpine, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit