Flora vs Grass - What's the difference?
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plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
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a book describing the plants of a country etc.
The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora
(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.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
As nouns the difference between flora and grass
is that flora is plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc while grass is 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.As proper nouns the difference between flora and grass
is that 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 while Grass is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb grass is
to lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).flora
English
Noun
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
Synonyms
* (microorganisms) microfloraCoordinate terms
* faunagrass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish