Flora vs Vegetation - What's the difference?
flora | vegetation |
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
(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
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(pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
As nouns the difference between flora and vegetation
is that flora is plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc while vegetation is plants, taken collectively.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.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
* faunavegetation
English
Noun
(wikipedia vegetation)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.}}
- There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
