Synonyms for fauna
ˈfɔ nəfau·na

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1. 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 being

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

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1. 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, creature

   Antonyms:
   botany, vegetation, flora

2. animal, 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, savage

   Antonyms:
   vegetation, flora, botany

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1. faunanoun

   Synonyms:
   animals (peculiar to a country or to an epoch)

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1. List of paraphrases for "fauna":

   wildlife, faune, faun, faunas, animals, faunal, wild, wildlife-related, flora

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How to use fauna in a sentence?

1. Steve Salisbury:

   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.

2. Fredrick Kyalo Manthi:

   The discovery of Nanopithecus browni reaffirms Kenyas contribution to understanding the evolution and diversity of Pliocene fauna and the environmental contexts in which they lived, environmental changes during the Plio-Pleistocene may have influenced the present-day distribution of guenons.

3. Waight Keller:

   The veil was a huge part of the conversations that we had early on. We talked about what we wanted to do in terms of trying to embrace some of the royal connections in there, and a lot of the work that she's going to probably do in the future is going to be connected to the Commonwealth ... and I said 'wouldn't it be amazing if we took the 53 countries of the Commonwealth and embroidered a flower and some flora and fauna from each one of those and that they would go up the aisle, that journey up the aisle with you'.

4. Juliya Arbisman:

   These might boil down to the ability of preexisting legal mechanisms to deal with these sorts of modern questions, there is also a pretty clear case for countries insisting on China to honor its obligations under CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) to stop people from trading in and eating endangered species, which is likely how Covid-19 infected humans in the first place.

5. John Kappelman:

   The way to test between these hypotheses is to collect more fossils, establishing when, exactly, the Eurasian fauna entered Afro-Arabia remains one of the most important questions in paleontology, and West Turkana is one of the only places we know of to find that answer.