| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Flowers; all the vegetable productions of a country or of a geological period, as the flora of England, the flora of the coal period. Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers. | 1 |
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The animals of a period or country are called the Fauna; hence, the phrase the Flora and the Fauna of … . signifies all its vegetable and animal productions. | 2 |
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Metropolis of Flora. Aranjuez, in Spain, is so called, from its many beautiful gardens. | 3 |
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