Definition of fauna Fauna
/fɔˈnʌ/ - [fonu] - fau•na
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NounPlural: faunas |
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| fauna - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" | ||
| zoology | ||
| botany, flora, vegetation the branch of biology that studies plants | ||
| aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating | ||
| biota, biology all the plant and animal life of a particular region | ||
| avifauna the birds of a particular region or period | ||
| fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature | ||
| being, organism the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" | ||
| animal kingdom, animalia, kingdom animalia taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals | ||
| pest any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" | ||
| critter a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) | ||
| creepy-crawly an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects) | ||
| darter a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; "squirrels are darters" | ||
| peeper an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | ||
| homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | ||
| ectotherm, poikilotherm an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | ||
| range animal any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) | ||
| varment, varmint any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | ||
| scavenger any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | ||
| work animal an animal trained for and used for heavy labor | ||
| domestic animal, domesticated animal any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment | ||
| feeder an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening | ||
| migrator an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year | ||
| molter, moulter an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | ||
| pet a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement | ||
| stayer a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer" | ||
| stunt a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention | ||
| marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals | ||
| female an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | ||
| male an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | ||
| adult any mature animal | ||
| offspring, young something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts" | ||
| pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | ||
| giant any creature of exceptional size | ||
| survivor an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters" | ||
| mutant an animal that has undergone mutation | ||
| herbivore any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores" | ||
| insectivore any organism that feeds mainly on insects | ||
| acrodont an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets | ||
| pleurodont an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets | ||
| zooplankton animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | ||
| conceptus, fertilized egg, embryo an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | ||
| chordate any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | ||
| invertebrate any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | ||
| metazoan any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | ||
| omnivore an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances | ||
| predatory animal, predator any animal that lives by preying on other animals | ||
| prey, quarry animal hunted or caught for food | ||
| game an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games" | ||
| hexapod an animal having six feet | ||
| biped an animal with two feet | ||
| larva the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | ||
| racer slender fast-moving North American snakes | ||
| fictional animal animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories) | ||
| animal tissue the tissue in the bodies of animals | ||
| caput, head a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" | ||
| face a vertical surface of a building or cliff | ||
| captive an animal that is confined | ||
| mate South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fauna (n.)
The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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fauna
The entire animal life of a given region, habitat or geological stratum.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
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