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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

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

The county, local agencies, utilities and property owners are in a constant battle with the flora and fauna just beyond fencelines and backyards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

With so much moisture in the air and loose dirt from both tectonic upheavals and the new species of flora tearing up the topsoil, it was like thin mud being thrown constantly in your face.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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

Let us run briefly over the geologic history of insects, in order that we may mark the peculiar light which it casts on the character of the ancient floras.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

The flora of the southwestern interior basin of North America in early late to late Pliocene was intermediate between the previous grassland floras of the middle Pliocene and the savannah flora of upper Pliocene.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard

They are sufficient to explain the reason for the existence of local floras.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America




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