Noun:

किसी प्रदेश की वनस्पतियां, पुष्प देवी,

floras's Usage Examples:

At the same time the then existing alpine floras descended to lower levels, though we may agree with Ball that they did not necessarily become extinct at higher ones as long as any land-surface remained uncovered by ice.

It took place southwards, for the arctic flora is remarkably uniform, and, as Chodat points out, it shows no evidence of having been recruited from the several mountain floras.

A detailed examination of mountain floras shows that a large local element is present in each besides the arctic. The one is in tact the result of similar physical conditions to that which has produced the other.

Thus comparing the Nearctic and Palaearctic floras we find striking differences overlying the points of agreement already indicated.

Starkie Gardner has argued with much plausibility that the Tertiary floras which have been found in the far north must have been of Eocene age.

As Clement Reid remarked: World-wide floras, such as seem to characterize some of the older periods, have ceased to be, and plants are distributed more markedly according to geographical provinces and in climatic zones.

To quote further: Existing floras exhibit only one moment in the history of the earths vegetation.

We arrive thus at the essential aim of geographical botany, which, as stated by Schimper, is an inquiry into the causes of differences existing among the various floras.

We must begin by briefly considering this southern Palaeozoic province if we would trace the Mesozoic floras to their origin, and obtain a connected view of the vegetation of the globe as it existed in late Palaeozoic times and at the beginning of the succeeding era.

It has floras of the plains, the hills and the mountains; an alpine flora, and an arctic flora; a flora of marshes, and a flora of steppes; floras peculiar to the clay, the chalk, the sandstone and the slate formations.

Synonyms:

brierpatch, brush, growth, botany, aggregation, accumulation, copse, wood, forest, bush, vegetation, stand, brier, brushwood, woods, garden, brier patch, coppice, collection, scrub, biology, assemblage, shrubbery, browse, biota, chaparral, ground cover, groundcover, thicket,

Antonyms:

lend oneself, uncover, weed, cultivated plant, fauna,