fauna
Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, biological group, etc.
Example
“the flora and fauna”
Other meanings
A particular group of animals as distinguished from another.
A book cataloguing the animals of a country.
Related words
- aerofauna
- aquafauna
- archaeofauna
- avifauna
- chronofauna
- coprofauna
- cryptofauna
- echinofauna
- endofauna
- endolithofauna
- epifauna
- faunal
Word history
From Latin "Fauna".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fauna” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.