The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLANTS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Flora crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PLANTS | 60 % | 6 |
| PLANTLIFE | 20 % | 9 |
| PLANTKINGDOM | 10 % | 12 |
| CARPETLAYER | 10 % | 11 |
Why may PLANTS be the right solution?
"Flora" is a term used to refer to the plant life of a particular region or period. "Plants" are the living organisms that make up the flora of an area, making it the correct answer to the crossword clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Flora
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- plant
- vegetation
- plant life
- flower
- floral
- wildlife
- animal
- fauna
- biota
- species
- life
- extinction
Crossword Answer definitions
PLANTS noun- 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.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- 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.
- Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- The sole of the foot.
- A plan; a swindle; a trick.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- 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.
- To place in the ground.
- To furnish or supply with plants.
- To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- To set up; to install; to instate.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result PLANTS
- Potted items
- Factories
- Sows seeds
- Audience members you can count on for laughs
- Some audience members
- Flora
- Magicians' cronies
- Oxygen providers
- Gardener's charges
- Morning glory and evening primrose