Fauna
['fɔːnə] or ['fɔnə]
Definition
(noun.) all the animal life in a particular region or period; 'the fauna of China'; 'the zoology of the Pliocene epoch'.
Editor: Simon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Animals (peculiar to a country or to an epoch).
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Examples
- Across this wilderness, which is now the great plain of Europe, wandered a various fauna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This was in marked contrast to the fauna and flora of th e South American tropics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We shall appreciate this difficulty more clearly by looking to certain existing faunas and floras. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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