different between flora vs shrub

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: shr?b, IPA^(key): /???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *s?rob (in placenames) and s?rybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

Noun

shrub (plural shrubs)

1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

Synonyms

• bush (plant)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)

2. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

   For example, /???b/ ? /s??b/

Etymology 2

From Arabic ??????? (šir?b, “a drink, beverage”), ??????? (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet

Noun

shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)

1. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs