Flores

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proper noun

An island of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal, in the North Atlantic.

OriginPortuguese Flores →
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Meanings

Flores1

proper noun
  1. An island of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal, in the North Atlantic.
  2. An island of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, located east of Java.

    The age of the bones, around 700,000 years old, suggest a group of Homo erectus arrived on Flores about one million years ago, according to van den Bergh.

    2016 June 9, James Griffiths, “This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021

Flores2

proper noun
  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. A province of Uruguay.

Origin

Flores · proper noun

  1. PortugueseFlores
  2. EnglishFlores

Borrowed from Portuguese Flores, from flores (“flowers”).

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Flores · proper noun

  1. SpanishFlores
  2. EnglishFlores

Borrowed from Spanish Flores, from flores (“flowers”).

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Cite this entry
APA

Flores. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Flores

MLA

“Flores.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Flores. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Flores,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Flores.

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