different between flora vs grass

English

Etymology

From Latin Fl?ra (goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl??.??/
• Rhymes: -??r?

Noun

flora (countable and uncountable, plural floras or florae or floræ)

1. Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

     He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.

   • 2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age (page 26)

     Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.

3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

   intestinal flora, gut flora

Synonyms

• (microorganisms): microflora

Derived terms

• dendroflora
• ethnoflora
• gut flora
• intestinal flora

Coordinate terms

• fauna

Translations

Anagrams

• folar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?flo.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?flo.?a/

Noun

flora f (uncountable)

1. flora

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin Fl?ra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Noun

flora (more common word is nebatat)

1. flora

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fl?ra, from Fl?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra
• Rhymes: -o?ra?

Noun

flora f (plural flora's)

1. flora (plant life, in particular the plant living or endemic in a certain area)

   Synonym: plantenwereld

2. flora (plant book)

   Synonyms: floragids, plantenboek

Derived terms

• darmflora
• floragids

Related terms

• Fleur
• fleurig
• florisant

Descendants

• Afrikaans: flora

Esperanto

Etymology

From floro +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flora/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

flora (accusative singular floran, plural floraj, accusative plural florajn)

1. (botany) floral

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch flora, from Latin Fl?ra (goddess of flowers), fl?s (“blossom”), from Proto-Italic *fl?s, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?-s (“flower, blossom”), from *b?leh?- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?flora]
• Hyphenation: flo?ra

Noun

flora (first-person possessive floraku, second-person possessive floramu, third-person possessive floranya)

1. flora:
   1. (botany) plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
   2. (botany) a book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   3. (microbiology) the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

Further reading

• “flora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

flora f (plural flore)

1. flora

Derived terms

• flora batterica

Anagrams

• farlo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer, definite plural floraene)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “flora” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer or floraar, definite plural floraene or floraane)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Fl?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?.ra/

Noun

flora f

1. flora (“plants considered as a group”)

   Synonyms: ro?linno??, szata ro?linna

   Antonym: fauna

Usage notes

• Rarely used in the plural.

Declension

Further reading

• flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora (plants of a region considered as a group)

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flô?ra/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra

Noun

fl?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. flora

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo?a/, [?flo.?a]

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

flora c

1. flora (vegetation, book)

   Antonym: fauna

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (“grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *gras (“grass”), from Proto-Germanic *gras? (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gräs, IPA^(key): /????s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?????s]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [???ä?s], [?????s]
• • Rhymes: -??s
• enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??æs/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [???æs], [?????s], [???e?s]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [???as], [???æs]
  • Rhymes: -æs

Noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grass
2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. (uncountable) A lawn.
4. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
5. (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

6. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
   • 1960, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Radarman 3 & 2 (volume 1, page 49)

     The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.

   • 1963, Analysis of Weapons (page 61)

     Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.

8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

   Synonyms: breakup, spring, springtime

9. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.

   Synonym: ephemera
10. (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. (mining) The surface of a mine.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: gras, garas
• ? Fiji Hindi: giraas

Translations

See also

• Poaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Grass (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

   Synonyms: flatten, floor, lay low, lay out, knock down, knock out, knock over, strike down
2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rat out
3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
   • 1903, John Buchan, The African Colony

     Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]

Translations

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• gras (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?. Cognate with German Gras, English grass.

Noun

grass m

1. (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) grass

References

• “grass” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

Noun

grass m

1. fat