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fau·na

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–noun, plural -nas, -nae

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1.	the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.

2.	a treatise on the animals of a given region or period.

3.	(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. Bona Dea.

[Origin: 1765–75; < NL, special use of L Fauna, a feminine counterpart to Faunus; cf. Flora

]

—Related forms

faunal, adjective

fau·nal·ly, adverb

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Bo·na De·a

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–noun

an ancient Roman goddess of chastity and fertility.

Also called Fauna.

[Origin: < L: lit., (the) Good Goddess

]

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n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-nē')

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.

[Late Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus.]

fau'nal adj., fau'nal·ly adv.

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fauna

1771, collective name for animals of a certain region or time, from L.L. Fauna, a Roman fertility goddess, wife, sister, or daughter (or some combination thereof) of Faunus. Popularized by Linnaeus (1707-78), who adopted it as a companion word to flora and used it in the title of his 1746 catalogue of the animals of Sweden, "Fauna Suecica." First used in Eng. by naturalist Gilbert White.

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fauna
noun
1.	all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" [ant: botany]
2.	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal]

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fauna [ˈfoːnə] noun

the animals of a district or country as a whole
Example: She is interested in South American fauna.

Arabic:	حَيوانات
Chinese (Simplified):	动物群
Chinese (Traditional):	動物群
Czech:	fauna
Danish:	fauna; dyreliv
Dutch:	fauna
Estonian:	fauna
Finnish:	eläimistö
French:	faune
German:	die Fauna
Greek:	πανίδα
Hungarian:	állatvilág
Icelandic:	fána, dÿraríki
Indonesian:	fauna
Italian:	fauna

Japanese:	動物相
Korean:	(한 지역이나 나라에 서식하는) 동물군
Latvian:	fauna, dzīvnieku valsts
Lithuanian:	fauna, gyvūnija
Norwegian:	dyreliv, fauna
Polish:	fauna
Portuguese (Brazil):	fauna
Portuguese (Portugal):	fauna
Romanian:	faună
Russian:	фауна
Slovak:	fauna
Slovenian:	favna
Spanish:	fauna
Swedish:	fauna
Turkish:	direy, fauna