Plural of flora; flowers or flowering plants; also a place name.
From Latin 'flos, floris' meaning 'flower'. The plural 'flores' is used in botanical contexts and as a geographic name, notably for the Indonesian island where Homo floresiensis was discovered.
Flores Island gained scientific fame as the discovery site of 'hobbits' - the small-statured human species Homo floresiensis. The island's name, meaning 'flowers' in Portuguese, became forever linked with one of the most significant paleoanthropological discoveries of the 21st century.
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