macrofloran.
/ˌmakrə(ʊ)ˈflɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈˌmækroʊˈflɔrə/ Ecology.
1. A flora made up of large plants. Cf. microflora n. 1. rare. Perhaps Obsolete.
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1896 D. W. Freshfield Exploration of Caucasus I. 48 Macroflora..is the name we henceforth apply to this vegetation of giant plants, which is not mentioned in treatises on geographical botany.
1905 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1904 351 The Italian botanists, Messieurs Levier and Sommier, have given a vivid account of what they call the makroflora of the Central Caucasus—those wild-flower beds, in which a man and a horse may literally be lost to sight, the product of a sudden heat on a rich and sodden soil.
2. With plural agreement: plants which are visible to the naked eye; spec. those of a particular habitat, region, epoch, etc. Also (with singular agreement): a group, class, community, or list of such plants. Cf. microflora n. 2.
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1903 C. A. Kofoid in Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist. 6 484 Other things being equal, bodies of fresh water free from vegetation (submerged macro-flora) produce more plankton than those rich in such vegetation.
1937 Jrnl. Ecol. 25 400 All these factors were conducive to a more abundant vegetation, including microflora, macroflora and phanerogamic plants.
1978 Nature 17 Aug. 661/2 Early angiosperm leaves often dominate the fossil macrofloras in the mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian-Cenomanian) localities.
1994 Cretaceous Res. 15 165 The palynological scheme incorporates all data from marine faunas, macroflora, and continental faunas.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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