different between greenery vs flora

English

Etymology

green +? -ery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???i?n??i/
• Rhymes: -i?n??i

Noun

greenery (usually uncountable, plural greeneries)

1. Green foliage or verdure.
2. Foliage used as decoration.
3. (slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

Translations

See also

• vegetation

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