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flora

[flawr-uh, flohr-uh] / ˈflɔr ə, ˈfloʊr ə /
NOUN
vegetable life
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Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Because they drained their savings buying and fixing up the house, they needed the cash infusions to fund the flora.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Its landscapes include grasslands, lagoons, heathland and vegetated shingle, which supports a range of creatures, flora and fauna - not just birds.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The government insists it has met all "green" requirements and has pledged to protect Great Nicobar's peoples, communities, as well as its unique flora and fauna, by establishing protected zones.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

That variation favored the evolution, among the flora, of an especially high percentage of annual plants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.

From Time Magazine Archive

The differences between the faunas and floras of these countries are too great and too radical to render it possible that any such connection should have existed except at a very remote period.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace

Map of, 215.Fossil floras, 256.France, possessions of, 419, 424.Fur-bearing animals, 278-282. Galveston,

From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell

Within the tropical forest, however, there are high mountains on which trees with the general characteristic of those more northern floras find a congenial habitat.

From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell

Oceanic islands have, as a rule, distinctive faunas and floras which resemble, but are not identical with, those of other islands in similar positions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various




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