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Plants, collectively — nature's way of staying put and still taking over.
means The plant life of a particular place or time, or plant life in general.
from From Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and spring — Latin flos, floris means 'flower.' Botanists in the 1700s started using 'flora' as a catalog-word for a region's plant life (paired with 'fauna' for animals), turning a goddess's name into a scientific shelf label.
- origin
- Named after Flora, Roman goddess of flowers
- scope
- Also used for gut bacteria, confusingly
- pairs with
- Fauna, its animal counterpart
- scale
- Can mean one region's plants or all plant life ever