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Synonyms for fauna
ˈfɔ nəfau·na
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 beingAntonyms:
angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable
Princeton's WordNet
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, creatureAntonyms:
botany, vegetation, floraanimal, 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, savageAntonyms:
vegetation, flora, botany
Dictionary of English Synonymes
faunanoun
Synonyms:
animals (peculiar to a country or to an epoch)
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#15375 | puppet | |
#16135 | fauna | |
#16634 | wight | |
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#23477 | brute | |
#26826 | wildcat | |
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How to use fauna in a sentence?
Environment Ministry official Guy Samet:
Crude oil flowed throughout the reserve, causing serious damage ... to flora and fauna.
Along with our discoveries of the Kipunji, Matilda's horned viper and other reptiles and frogs, this new chameleon really seals the deal as regards the boundary of the Eastern Arcs, it is very clear now that the so-called Makambako Gap doesn't exist zoologically, and that the Southern Highlands is every bit as biodiverse and endemic-rich as all other Eastern Arc Mountains. With its own unique fauna and flora the region thus warrants as much protection as we can possibly afford it.
This is the most diverse dinosaur track fauna ever recorded, if we went back in time 130 million years ago, we would've seen all these different dinosaurs walking over this coastline. It must've been quite a site.
Prior to our study, there were only four species of millipedes described from Burmese amber, which is known to be among the oldest and richest amber deposits of Cretaceous fauna.
If you think about it, that's a really strikingly high percentage of a fauna to be declining -- and in some cases really crashing.
Translations for fauna
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- фаунаBulgarian
- faunaCatalan, Valencian
- fauna, zvířenaCzech
- Fauna, Tierwelt, TierreichGerman
- πανίδαGreek
- faŭno, bestaroEsperanto
- faunaSpanish
- eläimistö, eläimetFinnish
- fauneFrench
- ainmhidhScottish Gaelic
- fána, dýraríkiIcelandic
- faunaItalian
- 動物誌, 動物相Japanese
- faunaMalay
- faunaDutch
- faunaPortuguese
- regnul animal, faunăRomanian
- животный мир, фаунаRussian
- động vậtVietnamese
- nimemVolapük
- 動物區系Chinese
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