flora
Definitions
All the plant life of a particular region, habitat, or period.
（某地区、环境或时期的）植物群；植物区系。
The bacteria and other microorganisms living in a part of the body, e.g. the gut.
（人体某部位，如肠道内的）菌群。
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedFrom Flōra, the Roman goddess of flowers and spring. Her name was borrowed by botanists to mean 'all the plants of a place,' and the word is almost always paired with fauna (animal life) — 'the flora and fauna' of a region.
Root flor still carries 8 more wordsWhy It Means This
Flora began as a proper name — the goddess who made flowers bloom each spring. Scientists turned the goddess into a category: not one flower but every plant in a place or era. By analogy it also names the community of microbes in the body (gut flora), since they too form a whole living population.
Common Collocations
- 1.flora and fauna动植物
- 2.native flora本土植物群
- 3.tropical flora热带植物群
- 4.gut flora肠道菌群
- 5.local flora本地植物群
Example Sentences
- 1.
The island's flora includes many species found nowhere else.
- 2.
Researchers catalogued the flora and fauna of the rainforest.
- 3.
Antibiotics can disrupt the natural flora of the gut.
Easily Confused
flora vs fauna — they sound like a pair and they are one: flora = the plants of a place, fauna = the animals. Mnemonic: floRa has the R of 'rose,' a plant; fAuna has the A of 'animal.'