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Biome vs Flora - What's the difference?

biome | flora |

As nouns the difference between biome and flora

is that biome is any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert while flora is plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

As a proper noun Flora is

the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.

biome

English

(wikipedia biome)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
  • Derived terms

    * microbiome

    flora

    English

    Noun

  • plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • *
  • Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
  • a book describing the plants of a country etc.
  • The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora
  • Synonyms

    * (microorganisms) microflora

    Coordinate terms

    * fauna