fau·na (fô n )n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-n   ) 1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group. 2. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period. [Late Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus.] fau nal adj.fau nal·ly adv. |
fauna
Noun
pl -nas or -nae all the animal life of a given place or time: the fauna of the Arctic [Late Latin Fauna, a goddess of living things]
| fauna (fôn) Plural faunas or faunae (fô n) The animals of a particular region or time period. |
fauna
1. 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.
See also: Animals
2. a study of or treatise on the animal life of a particular time or region. — faunal, adj.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. | fauna - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole avifauna - the birds of a particular region or period animal group - a group of animals botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| 2. |  fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently ritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity tracking, trailing - the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind 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) 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 that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" 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 creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth 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 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 micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size actinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales 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 |
Translations
n fauna [ˈfoːnə]
the animals of a district or country as a whole She is interested in South American fauna. fauna, dierewêreld حَيوانات фауна fauna fauna; dyreliv die Fauna πανίδα fauna fauna جانوران eläimistö faune עוֹלָם הַחַי पशु fauna állatvilág fauna fána, dÿraríki fauna 動物相 (한 지역이나 나라에 서식하는) 동물군 fauna, gyvūnija fauna, dzīvnieku valsts fauna fauna dyreliv, fauna fauna fauna faună фауна fauna favna fauna fauna สัตว์ในท้องถิ่นหนึ่ง ๆ หรือช่วงเวลาหนึ่ง ๆ direy, fauna 動物群 фауна کسی علاقے یا ملک کے تمام جانور quần động vật 动物群
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