English noun: fauna |
1. | fauna (group) all the animal life in a particular region or period |
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| Samples | The fauna of China. The zoology of the Pliocene epoch.
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| Synonyms | zoology |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | avifauna |
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| Member holonym | animal group |
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| Member meronym | biology, biota |
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| Antonyms | botany, flora, vegetation |
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2. | fauna a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
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| Synonyms | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acrodont, adult, biped, captive, chordate, conceptus, creepy-crawly, critter, darter, domestic animal, domesticated animal, ectotherm, embryo, feeder, female, fertilized egg, fictional animal, game, giant, herbivore, hexapod, homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm, insectivore, invertebrate, larva, male, marine animal, marine creature, mate, metazoan, migrator, molter, moulter, mutant, offspring, omnivore, peeper, pest, pet, pleurodont, poikilotherm, predator, predatory animal, prey, pureblood, purebred, quarry, racer, range animal, scavenger, sea animal, sea creature, stayer, stunt, survivor, thoroughbred, varment, varmint, work animal, young, zooplankton |
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| Part holonym | caput, face, head |
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| Member meronym | animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia |
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| Substance holonym | animal tissue |
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| Domain category members | actinomycete, adult, all-devouring, big, body, bone, bone-covered, crested, crop, debone, diet, domesticate, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, drench, epizootic, flesh-eating, free-swimming, full-grown, fully grown, graze, gregarious, grown, grownup, half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed, hispid, humaneness, insectivorous, meat-eating, micro-organism, microorganism, nose, organic structure, pasture, physical structure, phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating, reclaim, registered, ritual killing, sacrifice, schistosome dermatitis, side, sitter, social, stander, swimmer's itch, tame, tame, topknotted, tracking, trailing, transmitter, trap, tufted, unattached, unregistered, vector, wart, zoophagous |
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