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fauna

/faw-nuh/US // ˈfɔ nə //UK // (ˈfɔːnə) //

动物群,动植物,动物群落,动物园

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fau·nas, fau·nae [faw-nee]. /ˈfɔ ni/.

    • : the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
    • : a treatise on the animals of a given region or period.
    • : Roman Religion. Bona Dea.

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Examples

  • Local fauna also came into greater view, less fearful of cities when the hum of engines and voices died down.

  • Barton also noted in his letter that the area, in a post-Civil War survey, was dubbed the “Canadian Valley” because of both the climate and the high concentration of far-north flora and fauna.

  • A pruner should be your go-tool for trimming and shaping your flora and fauna while preserving plant tissue and extending the life of your greenery.

  • The land holds some of the best-preserved Apache archaeological sites, as well as untouched flora and fauna like old-growth trees and threatened species like ocelots, which Redniss draws in realistic detail.

  • In Brazil, for instance, an app allows residents to report dead and afflicted fauna in hopes of identifying emerging outbreaks.

  • The area is a disturbed wetland, invaded by non-native melaleuca trees that have crowded out native flora and fauna.

  • You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora.

  • I kept my word and now I am beginning to make acquaintance with the flora and fauna of my little wood.

  • The fauna is not abundant except in large mammals, which are very numerous on the drier steppes.

  • It was obviously unfair to expect her to be familiar with the flora and fauna of every part of the great Australian Continent.

  • In the fauna of the region that I had traversed I had noted changes corresponding to those in the flora.

  • I may conclude this chapter by a brief view of the Fauna of the higher vertebral animals.