isoflor

Meaning

Noun

  • An isoline on a map that connects areas where a given number of plant taxa can be found, particularly species within a certain genus or family.
  • An isoline on a map that connects sites with similar Eocene fossil floras.

Origin

  • + clipping of flora. The Eocene fossil sense was first employed by Chaney in 1940 (see quotations).

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