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fau·na F0054500 (fô′nə)n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-nē′) 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 (ˈfɔːnə) n, pl -nas or -nae (-niː) 1. (Zoology) all the animal life of a given place or time, esp when distinguished from the plant life (flora)2. (Zoology) a descriptive list of such animals[C18: from New Latin, from Late Latin Fauna a goddess, sister of Faunus] ˈfaunal adj ˈfaunally advfau•na (ˈfɔ nə)
n., pl. -nas, -nae (-nē). 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole. 2. a list of the animals of a given region or period. [1765–75; < New Latin, after Latin Fauna, a feminine counterpart to Faunus; compare flora] fau′nal, adj. fau·na (fô′nə) The animals of a particular region or time period: tropical fauna; prehistoric fauna.fauna1. 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: AnimalsfaunaAll animals occupying a major geographical region.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | fauna - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch"zoologyaggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a wholebiota, biology - all the plant and animal life of a particular regionavifauna - the birds of a particular region or periodanimal group - a group of animalsbotany, 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 movementanimal, animate being, beast, creature, bruteorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlyritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deitytracking, trailing - the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behindanimal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animalspest - 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 soundshomeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm - an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperatureectotherm, poikilotherm - an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammalsrange 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., coyotescavenger - any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matterwork animal - an animal trained for and used for heavy labordomestic animal, domesticated animal - any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environmentfeeder - 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 yearmolter, 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 amusementstayer - 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 growthmarine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature - any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammalsfemale - 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 animalyoung, offspring - any immature animalpureblood, purebred, thoroughbred - a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horsesgiant - any creature of exceptional sizesurvivor - an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"mutant - an animal that has undergone mutationherbivore - 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 insectsacrodont - an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without socketspleurodont - an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without socketsmicroorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic sizeactinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetaleszooplankton - animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvaeconceptus, 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 lifechordate - any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal columninvertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classificationmetazoan - any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and spongesomnivore - an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substancespredatory animal, predator - any animal that lives by preying on other animalsprey, quarry - animal hunted or caught for foodgame - animal hunted for food or sport |
Translationsfauna (ˈfoːnə) noun the animals of a district or country as a whole. She is interested in South American fauna. 動物群 动物群IdiomsSeeflora and faunaFauna
Fauna, in Roman religion: see Bona DeaBona Dea
, in Roman religion, ancient fertility goddess worshiped only by women; also called Fauna. She was said to be the daughter, sister, or wife of Faunus. No man could be present at her annual festival in May.
..... Click the link for more information. .Fauna the aggregate of animal species inhabiting a particular region. The fauna of a region evolves historically from various animal groups known as faunistic complexes. It is usually difficult and sometimes even impossible to ascertain the origin of a faunistic complex; as a result, determination of whether certain species belong to a given complex is generally based on the similarity of the ranges of the animals. There are tundra, taiga, nemoral, forest, steppe, semidesert, desert, pantropic, palaeotropical, and other faunistic complexes. The faunistic complexes constituting a given fauna may vary in number. For example, the steppe fauna is made up of the predominant steppe faunistic complex, a complex of cosmopolitan species, and representatives of complexes predominant in other faunas, for example, nemoral and desert complexes. The steppe faunistic complex, in turn, consists of several groups: endemic animals, animals that are not endemic but occupy zonal habitats in the steppe zone and do not range far from the zone, and animals that range relatively far from the zone but are very abundant in the zone. Every region has autochthonous species, whose origin is linked to the region, and immigrant species. Thus, the fauna of a region consists of species of different origin that came to the region by different routes and at different times. The species constituting a fauna occupy a given habitat. For example, the desert fauna includes inhabitants of clayey deserts, sandy deserts, stony deserts, solonetzes, solonchaks, lakes, rivers, and river valleys overgrown with tugais. One of the principal means of studying a fauna is to take an inventory to determine the number of species constituting the fauna. The end result of fauna research is faunistic or zoogeographic regionalization of the earth or its individual regions. The term “fauna” should not be confused with animal population—that is, the aggregate of animals that form a community characterized both by species diversity and by a large number of individuals (for example, in a tropical rain forest, high-grass savanna, or spruce forest). The term “fauna” is also applied to animals of different taxonomic categories (for example, the bird fauna or beetle fauna of a particular region), to the animals of a particular period (recent fauna, Myocene fauna), and, in geology, to the remains of animals from certain strata of earth. Faunas are also studied by a branch of zoogeography called faunisties or faunistic zoogeography. Comprehensive treatises on the animals of an area are also called faunas, for example, the USSR fauna and the Tadzhikistan fauna. REFERENCESGeptner, V. G. Obshchaia zoogeografiia. Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.
Bobrinskii, N. A., and N. A. Gladkov. Geografiia zhivotnykh, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1961.
Kucheruk, V. V. “Stepnoi faunisticheskii kompleks mlekopitaiu-shchikh i ego mesto v faune Palearktiki.” In Geografiia naseleniia nazemnykh zhivotnykh i metody ego izucheniia. Moscow, 1959.
Voronov, A. G. Biogeografiia. Moscow, 1963.
Darlington, F. Zoogeografiia. Moscow, 1966. (Translated from English.)
Lattin, G. de. Grundriss der Zoogeographie. Jena, 1967.A. G. VORONOV fauna[′fȯn·ə] (zoology) Animals. The animal life characteristic of a particular region or environment. fauna1. all the animal life of a given place or time, esp when distinguished from the plant life (flora) 2. a descriptive list of such animals fauna
fau·na (faw'nă), The animal forms of a continent, district, locality, or habitat. [Mod. L. application of Fauna, sister of Faunus, a rural deity] fauna (fô′nə)n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-nē′) 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.
fau′nal adj.fau′nal·ly adv.fau·na (faw'nă) The animal forms of a continent, district, locality, or habitat. [Mod. L. application of Fauna, sister of Faunus, a rural deity]fauna the grouping of animals present in any one place or at any one time in geological history Together with the FLORA this constitutes the total of organisms living in a particular environment - ‘the flora and fauna’.FAUNA
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