[1895–1900; flor- + -istic]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: apothecaries' measure, backstage, cutback, flamenco, freewheel-istic is a suffix of adjectives (and in the plural, of nouns from adjectives) formed fromnouns ending in -ist and having reference to such nouns, or to associated nouns in -ism (deistic; euphuistic; puristic). In nouns, it usually has a plural form (linguistics)
Examples of 'floristic' in a sentence
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Species richness and floristic diversity were higher in grazed grasslands.
MARIANA NAI-BREGAGLIO, EDUARDO PUCHETA, MARCELO CABIDO 2002, 'El efecto del pastoreo sobre la diversidad florística y estructural en pastizalesde montaña del centro de Argentina Grazing effects on the floristic and structuraldiversity in mountain grasslands from central Argentina', Revista Chilena de Historia Naturalhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2002000300012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The studied communities exhibited few similarities and lower floristic diversity than other rupestrian complexes.
Paula Alves Oliveira, Israel Marinho Pereira, Maria Cristina Teixeira Braga Messias,Marcio Leles Romarco de Oliveira, André César Pinheiro, Evandro Luiz Mendonça Machado,Junior Lacerda Alves de Oliveira 2017, 'Phytosociology of the herbaceous-subshrub layer of a rupestrian complex in Serra doEspinhaço, Brazil', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062017005008102&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Differences in floristic composition allow us to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic peatlands.
MARÍA F DÍAZ, JUAN LARRAÍN, GABRIELA ZEGERS, CAROLINA TAPIA 2008, 'Caracterización florística e hidrológica de turberas de la Isla Grande de Chiloé,Chile Floristic and hydrological characterization of Chiloé Island peatlands, Chile',Revista Chilena de Historia Naturalhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2008000400002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The two physiognomies showed distinct floristic, structural and phytosociological characteristics.
Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Mundayatan Haridasan 2005, 'Comparação da vegetação arbórea e características edáficas de um cerradão e um cerradosensu stricto em áreas adjacentes sobre solo distrófico no leste de Mato Grosso, BrasilA comparison of the woody vegetation and soil characteristics of a cerradão and aCerrado sensu stricto in adjacents areas on dystrophic soils in eastern Mato GrossoState, Brazil', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062005000400026. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The studied cerradão area had high floristic diversity and climax species predominated.
Eder Pereira Miguel, Alba Valéria Rezende, Fabrício Assis Leal, Eraldo Aparecido TrondoliMatricardi, José Marcelo Imana Encinas, João Felipe Nunes Miranda 2017, 'Floristic, structural, and allometric equations to estimate arboreal volume and biomassin a cerradão site', Semina: Ciências Agráriashttp://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/26008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Anthropogenic related pressures and disturbance appear to be major causes of floristic differences amongst patches.
Olivier K. Kambaj, Sershen Naidoo, Yanadayalan Govender, Syd Ramdhani 2018, 'A floristic comparison of three Northern Coastal Forests differing in disturbancehistory', Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservationhttps://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/2262. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Samples were taken of forage plants together with corresponding floristic and ethnobotanical information.
José Salvador Flores, Francisco Bautista 2012, 'Knowledge of the Yucatec Maya in seasonal tropical forest management: the forage plantsEl conocimiento de los mayas yucatecos en el manejo del bosque tropical estacional:las plantas forrajeras', Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidadhttp://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-34532012000200022. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Increased floristic diversity – a phenomenon also observed in more recent urban environments – was also noted.
Paul M. Ledger, Yannick Miras, Matthieu Poux, Pierre Yves Milcent 2015, 'The Palaeoenvironmental Impact of Prehistoric Settlement and Proto-Historic Urbanism:Tracing the Emergence of the Oppidum of Corent, Auvergne, France', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0121517. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We analyzed species richness and floristic composition of herb communities among different elevations and habitats.
Jorge Antonio Gómez-Díaz, Thorsten Krömer, Holger Kreft, Gerhard Gerold, César IsidroCarvajal-Hernández, Felix Heitkamp 2017, 'Diversity and composition of herbaceous angiosperms along gradients of elevation andforest-use intensity', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0182893. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Area-based methods form the basis of initial floristic classifications from which vegetation maps are constructed.
M.D. Panagos, B.K. Reilly 2006, 'Use of an area-based survey technique to detect vegetation changes in Sour Bushveld',Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Sciencehttps://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/105. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)