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flora

[flawr-uh, flohr-uh] / ˈflɔr ə, ˈfloʊr ə /
NOUN
vegetable life
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The trust's founder, Dr Margaret Bradshaw, said the group wanted to raise awareness of the fragility of special flora in the area.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 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

Excursions are led by Orvis-endorsed guide Scott Penn, who covers the history, flora and fauna of the region along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

According to the writer Hiram Rogers, grassy balds cover just 0.015 percent of the Smokies landscape yet hold 29 percent of its flora.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

In this way the similarity between the Alpine and Scandinavian faunas and floras is assumed to have been brought about.

From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff

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

The study of extinct floras has shown that during the preceding ages in the earth's history marvellous changes in the plants of many regions, and, in fact, of the entire earth's surface, have taken place.

From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell

Not uncommonly, the exotic floras differ from ours, not merely in respect of the species, but also of the genera of Gasteromycetes.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke


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