Difference between Flora and Plant

What is the difference between Flora and Plant?

Flora as a noun is plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. while Plant as a noun is an organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

Flora

Part of speech: noun

Definition: plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. a book describing the plants of a country etc. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora

Example sentence: A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Plant

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.A large piece of machinery, such as used in earthmoving or road construction.

Example sentence: I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

We hope you now know whether to use Flora or Plant in your sentence.

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