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Definitions for FAUNA
ˈfɔ nəfau·na

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fauna, zoologynoun

    all the animal life in a particular region or period

    "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch"

  2. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Wiktionary

  1. faunanoun

    animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

  2. faunanoun

    a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

  3. Etymology: New Latin, from Fauna, sister of Faunus 'god of forests and herdsmen'; akin to Ancient Greek θαῦνον, thýs 'jackal, wild dog; panther', Phrygian dáos 'wolf'.

ChatGPT

  1. fauna

    Fauna refers to all of the animal life present in a particular region, habitat or a specific period of time. This includes both wild and domestic animals, as well as species that live on land, in the air, or in water. In a broader sense, it can also refer to the classification of animal species in a systematic way.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Faunanoun

    the animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna

  2. Etymology: [NL.: cf. F. faune. See Faun.]

Wikidata

  1. Fauna

    Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess Shale fauna". Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which is a series of rocks all containing similar fossils.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fauna

    fawn′a, n. animals collectively, or those of a particular country, or of a particular geological period:—pl. Faun′æ, Faun′as.—n. Faun, a Roman rural deity, protector of shepherds.—adj. Faun′al.—n. Faun′ist, one who studies a fauna. [L. faunus, from favēre, fautum, to favour.]

Entomology

  1. Fauna

    the assemblage of animals inhabiting a region or country.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FAUNA in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FAUNA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of FAUNA in a Sentence

  1. Juliya Arbisman:

    These might boil down to the ability of preexisting legal mechanisms to deal with these sorts of modern questions, there is also a pretty clear case for countries insisting on China to honor its obligations under CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) to stop people from trading in and eating endangered species, which is likely how Covid-19 infected humans in the first place.

  2. Waight Keller:

    The veil was a huge part of the conversations that we had early on. We talked about what we wanted to do in terms of trying to embrace some of the royal connections in there, and a lot of the work that she's going to probably do in the future is going to be connected to the Commonwealth ... and I said 'wouldn't it be amazing if we took the 53 countries of the Commonwealth and embroidered a flower and some flora and fauna from each one of those and that they would go up the aisle, that journey up the aisle with you'.

  3. Barney Long:

    Our current list of lost species is over 2,000 and they cover the whole breadth of flora, fauna and fungi across the world.

  4. Michael Ohl:

    I am convinced that events like this increase people’s curiosity about local and global fauna and nature.

  5. Steve Salisbury:

    This is the most diverse dinosaur track fauna ever recorded, if we went back in time 130 million years ago, we would've seen all these different dinosaurs walking over this coastline. It must've been quite a site.

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