fauna
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈfɔːnə/
- Specialized
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fauna
- This is something you don't see often, because most of the fauna from this region cannot thrive in the post-arctic conditions.
- fauna and flora
- Wild fauna
- freshwater fauna
But not just those those kind of inert things, but there's also flora and fauna.
- But not just those those kind of inert things, but there's also flora and fauna.
- It supports a unique flora and fauna therefore, but it's also responsible for tying up lots of carbon.
- So she, you know, travels to the Amazon and and the Andes, and a lot of that goes into the descriptions of the environment and the fauna in in this work.
- So without those, without that, the, the flora and the fauna, they're in the soil, you're not going to have a successful garden.
- The species in bogs, both flora and fauna, greatly reduced, and also just the general size of these habitats were greatly reduced.
- So I have spent my life dining upon flora and fauna to bring nourishment to my body.
- Great interest to me, psychedelic fauna, so to be distinguished from flora, I'll just put that.
- So you have a different fauna and you would have in, in in Africa and the savannas.
- That region's flora and fauna was so imbalanced, the plants, so many plant species went extinct.
Examples
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Planetologists have identified many species of Hardy flora and fauna, but none are more prolific than the famous sandworms.
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Primates make up 13 percent of the total fauna in our collection.
Academic text (1991) -
And then learning the plants and animals, the flora and fauna of that given area.
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I'm making a report of the flora and fauna we found on the island.
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In protected areas, the vegetation is luxuriant, and fauna shows many southern features.
Fiction book (1996) -
The high peaks of the Pinalenos contain an important and unusual fauna for two reasons.
Academic text (1990) -
Here, we have assembled a collection of flora and fauna, indigenous to both the South American rain forest and the African savanna.
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Unlike the invertebrates, the fish fauna of the Antarctic is strikingly poor.
Academic text (1992) -
Nile perch persisted as a minor component of the fauna for two decades, until the early 1980s.
Academic text (1992) -
The unique fauna of the Amazon rainforest includes species not found anywhere else in the world.
Antonyms
How Diverse
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fauna comes from a Latin name for 'animals' and 'nature spirits', and is linked to the Roman god Faunus; it is often used together with flora, which means 'plants'. So fauna today means all the animals living in a particular place.