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| Main Entry: |
flora
 [flawr-uh, flohr-uh] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vegetable life |
| Synonyms: | plants, vegetation, verdure |
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| Main Entry: | vegetable kingdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant life |
| Synonyms: | botany, flora, flowerage, green plants, greenery, herbage, plant kingdom, plants, vegetable life, vegetation, verdure |
| Main Entry: | vegetation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant life |
| Synonyms: | crops, flora, flowers, grasses, greenery, herbage, herbs, plants, saplings, shrubs, trees, vegetables, verdure |
Example Sentences
- The region in which this park is located holds several world records in the cataloging of flora and fauna species.
- Glaciers are receding worldwide, sea levels are rising, flora and fauna are adapting by shifting their ranges poleward.
- Homeopaths have been aware of the effect of the bowel flora on the health for almost a hundred years.
| Main Entry: | plant kingdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plants of the world |
| Synonyms: | Plantae, flora, kingdom Plantae, plant life, plants, vegetable kingdom |
| Main Entry: | vegetation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plants |
| Synonyms: | flora, greenery, growth, herbage, hibernation, inactivity, lethargy, listlessness, verdancy, verdure |
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