Flora definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary FLO'RA, n. [See Floral ... life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion [syn: plant, flora, plant life] Merriam Webster's noun (plural floras; also florae) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, from Latin flor-, flos Date: 1777 ... life characteristic of a region, period, or special environment < fossil flora > < intestinal flora > — compare fauna Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. ...
... life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the branch of biology that ... Bay, New S. Wales, named from the variety of its flora Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 the study of the physiology ... Bible Encyclopedia bot'-a-ni. 1. General Characteristics of Palestinian Flora: On account of the great diversity in the climatic and ... conditions Palestine is peculiarly rich in the variety of its flora--the best authority, Post, distinguishes 3,500 species. The land ... of bulbs, rigid stalks, or fleshy leaves, of which the flora of Palestine abounds with examples. Equally characteristic are dry, ...
Desert flora definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Desert Des"ert, a. [Cf ... And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert ...
... Features 2. Water-Supply 3. Geological Conditions 4. Fauna and Flora 5. Climate 6. Rainfall 7. Drought and Famine II. PALESTINE ... of the numerous incidental allusions to the natural features, fauna, flora, cultivation, and climate of the land in which most of ... cliffs of Sharon. See GEOLOGY OF PALESTINE. 4. Fauna and Flora: As regards fauna, flora and cultivation, it is sufficient here to say that they ... tropical, and none in which the range of fauna and flora is consequently so large, from the European to the African ... malarious than of old, but the identity of the Palestinian flora with that of the Bible indicates that the climate, ...
... attending the flower, as a floral leaf. 2. Pertaining to Flora or to flowers; as floral games; floral play. WordNet (r ... display > < a floral design > 2. of or relating to a flora < floral diversity > II. noun Date: 1897 a design or picture ... of flowers. 2 decorated with or depicting flowers. 3 of flora or floras. Derivatives: florally adv. Etymology: L floralis or flos ... 1913 Dictionary Floral Flo"ral, a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F. floral. See Flora.] 1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, ...
... 2. Modern Divisions 3. Political Situation 4. Chief Towns IV. FLORA AND FAUNA 1. Flora 2. Fauna V. INHABITANTS 1. Classification 2. Extinct Tribes 3 ... is said to have as many as 60,000. IV. Flora and Fauna. 1. Flora: The peninsula of Arabia belongs, as has been said, in its physical features to Africa, and its flora and fauna are those of that continent. Of all the ...
... zoology of the Pliocene epoch" [syn: fauna, zoology] [ant: botany, flora, vegetation] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn ... animals characteristic of a region, period, or special environment — compare flora • faunal adjective • faunally adverb Britannica Concise All the species of ... the animal life of a region or geological period (cf. FLORA). 2 a treatise on or list of this. Derivatives: faunal ... particular area, can be referred to as fauna. (TECHNICAL) ...the flora and fauna of the African jungle... Brackish waters generally support ...
... of Life 6. The Nile 7. The Fauna 8. The Flora 9. The Prehistoric Races II. THE HISTORY 1. 1st and ... to Egypt and Italy in the Middle Ages. 8. The Flora: The cultivated plants of Egypt were numerous. In ancient times ... books stated below. The Country: Baedeker's Egypt; on the flora, Petrie, Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsioe. The History: Prehistoric: Petrie, Diospolis ...
... the broad plain of the Ghor." 4. Climate Fauna and Flora: Owing to its depression below sea-level the climate of ... the Dead Sea is said by Tristram (SWP, "Fauna and Flora") to be identical with that now existing in Ethiopia. Of ... Dead Sea, are related to Ethiopian and Indian species. The flora is equally interesting. Out of 162 species of plants found ...
... life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the process of growth in ... do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction ...