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Flora vs Vegetable - What's the difference?

flora | vegetable | Related terms |

Flora is a related term of vegetable.


As nouns the difference between flora and vegetable

is that flora is flora while vegetable is any plant.

As an adjective vegetable is

of or relating to plants.

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

    vegetable

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any plant.
  • A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
  • The edible part of such a plant.
  • (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
  • Synonyms

    * (derogatory term for a person with brain damage) cabbage

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to plants.
  • Of or relating to vegetables.