Fauna

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
  • n. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • n. a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The animals of any given area or epoch
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The total of the animal life of a given region or period; the sum of the animals living in a given area or time: a term corresponding to flora in respect of plants: as, the fauna of America; a fossil fauna; the recent fauna; the land and water faunæ of the globe.
  • n. A treatise upon the animals of any geographical area or geological period.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. all the animal life in a particular region or period
  • n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    faunae   
    Form
    mesofauna    meiofauna    macrofauna    microfauna    faunal    megafauna    infauna    epifauna   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Shauna    Shawna    sauna   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flora    mammal    wildlife    aborigines    vegetation    predator    zoölogy    reptile    explorations    mammalia