English noun: flora |
1. | flora (group) all the plant life in a particular region or period |
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| Samples | Pleistocene vegetation. The flora of southern California. The botany of China.
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| Synonyms | botany, vegetation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | brier, brier patch, brierpatch, browse, brush, brushwood, bush, chaparral, coppice, copse, forest, garden, ground cover, groundcover, growth, scrub, shrubbery, stand, thicket, wood, woods |
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| Member meronym | biology, biota |
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| Domain category | flora, plant, plant life |
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| Domain category members | cut, dried-up, mown, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, sprouted, uncut, unmown, withered |
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| Antonyms | fauna, zoology |
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2. | flora (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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| Synonyms | plant, plant life |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acrogen, aerophyte, air plant, annual, apomict, aquatic, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, biennial, crop, cryptogam, embryo, endemic, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, escape, gametophyte, garden plant, holophyte, houseplant, hygrophyte, microflora, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, myrmecophyte, neophyte, non-flowering plant, ornamental, perennial, phytoplankton, plantlet, poisonous plant, pot plant, rock plant, sporophyte, tracheophyte, vascular plant, wilding |
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| Part holonym | cap, hood, plant part, plant structure |
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| Member meronym | kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae |
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| Domain category | botany, phytology |
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| Domain category members | accrete, acid-loving, alder blight, alkaline-loving, amentaceous, amentiferous, amphitropous, anatropous, apocarpous, blanched, botanical medicine, botany, bruise, caespitose, campylotropous, carnivorous, cespitose, circulation, clustered, coca, cultivate, deaden, deciduous, dicotyledonous, domesticate, endangered, epiphytotic, etiolate, etiolate, etiolated, evergreen, floccose, flora, fugaciousness, fugacity, girdle, gregarious, half-hardy, herbal therapy, hispid, insectivorous, inverted, leggy, micro-organism, microorganism, monocotyledonous, naturalise, naturalize, nitrification, orthotropous, pappose, parasite, perennation, peroxidase, photosynthesis, phytotherapy, propagate, saprophytic, sedgy, squamule, syncarpous, tall-growing, tame, tender, tenderiser, tenderizer, threatened, tufted, ungregarious, vegetation |
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