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fau·na    Audio Help   [faw-nuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -nas, -nae    Audio Help   [-nee] Pronunciation Key.
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]

faunal, adjective
fau·nal·ly, adverb
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Bo·na De·a    Audio Help   [boh-nuh dee-uh, dey-uh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
an ancient Roman goddess of chastity and fertility.
Also called Fauna.


[Origin: < L: lit., (the) Good Goddess]
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fau·na    Audio Help   (fô'nə)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
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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
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fauna    Audio Help   (fô'nə)  Pronunciation Key 
Plural faunas or faunae (fô'nē')
The animals of a particular region or time period.

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
fauna [(faw-nuh)]

Animals, especially the animals of a particular place and time.


[Chapter:] Life Sciences


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Fauna

Fau"na\, n. [NL.: cf. F. faune. See Faun.] (Zo["o]l.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
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