Meaning of fauna | Babel Free

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1. The goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus.
   Roman
2. Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time.
   uncountable
3. Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. A female given name from Latin.
5. A book, cataloguing the animals of a country.
   countable
6. The animals of a particular region or time period: tropical fauna; prehistoric fauna.
7. A book, cataloguing the animals of a country
8. All animals occupying a major geographical region.
9. the animals of a district or country as a whole. She is interested in South American fauna. fauna, dierewêreld حَيوانات фауна fauna fauna die Fauna fauna; dyreliv πανίδαfauna fauna جانوران fauna faune עוֹלָם הַחַי पशु fauna állatvilág fauna fána, dÿraríki fauna 動物相 (한 지역·시대의) 동물군 fauna, gyvūnija fauna, dzīvnieku valsts fauna faunadyreliv, faunafauna هغه ژوچه په يوه مهال يا يوه سيمه كې پيدا كيږى fauna faună фауна fauna favna fauna fauna สัตว์ในท้องถิ่นหนึ่ง ๆ หรือช่วงเวลาหนึ่ง ๆ direy, fauna 動...
10. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
11. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.
12. (Zoology) all the animal life of a given place or time, esp when distinguished from the plant life (flora)
13. (Zoology) a descriptive list of such animals
14. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
15. a list of the animals of a given region or period.
16. the animal life of a particular time or region.2. a study of or treatise on the animal life of a particular time or region. — faunal, adj.
    adj

Equivalents

Examples

“the flora and fauna”

“Japanese waters also support a rich and diverse shark fauna, including the smallest known shark Squaliolus laticaudus, and the bizarre goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.”

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