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Synonyms for fauna
ˈfɔ nəfau·na

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  1. fauna

    An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

    Synonyms:
    animal, beast, brute, living creature, living organism, sentient being

    Antonyms:
    angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

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  1. fauna, zoologynoun

    all the animal life in a particular region or period

    "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch"

    Synonyms:
    zoology, animal, animate being, zoological science, brute, beast, creature

    Antonyms:
    botany, vegetation, flora

  2. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

    Synonyms:
    zoology, puppet, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, beast, wolf, creature, savage

    Antonyms:
    vegetation, flora, botany

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. faunanoun

    Synonyms:
    animals (peculiar to a country or to an epoch)

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  1. List of paraphrases for "fauna":

    wildlife, faune, faun, faunas, animals, faunal, wild, wildlife-related, flora

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How to use fauna in a sentence?

  1. John Long:

    I think it is a highly significant discovery, as the origin and diversificationof modern bony-jawed fishesis still shrouded in mystery, but Janiusiscus takes us abig step closer to really understandingthis major evolutionary transition, from primitive jawed fishes to the beginning of themodern jawed fish fauna.

  2. Francesco Vicarelli:

    White and black truffles grow here, it is rich in fauna which is disappearing.

  3. Treasurer Frydenberg:

    This has been an ecological disaster, a disaster that is still unfolding, we know that our native flora and fauna have been very badly damaged.

  4. Louis Aragon:

    The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  5. Waight Keller:

    The veil was a huge part of the conversations that we had early on. We talked about what we wanted to do in terms of trying to embrace some of the royal connections in there, and a lot of the work that she's going to probably do in the future is going to be connected to the Commonwealth ... and I said 'wouldn't it be amazing if we took the 53 countries of the Commonwealth and embroidered a flower and some flora and fauna from each one of those and that they would go up the aisle, that journey up the aisle with you'.


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