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fauna - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'fauna' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fauna [ n.]
- The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

Meaning of 'fauna' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fauna [ n]
Meaning (1):
- all the animal life in a particular region or period
Example in sentence:
  • the fauna of China;
  • the zoology of the Pliocene epoch