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Flora vs Herbage - What's the difference?

flora | herbage | Related terms |

Flora is a related term of herbage.


As nouns the difference between flora and herbage

is that flora is flora while herbage is herbs collectively.

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

    herbage

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Herbs collectively.
  • Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
  • *1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
  • *:I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 97:
    • The dank breath of herbage , sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.
  • The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
  • (legal) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).