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fau·na
faw n
复数:faunas或faunae
faunal (adj.), faunally (adv.)
noun
animals collectively, esp. of a particular period, region, or environment. (Cf. flora.)Among the various types of fauna living in the swamp are alligators and snakes.
a written and often illustrated work that systematically describes the animals of a particular area or time.
flora and fauna动植物;动植物群
1771年,“某个地区或时间的动物生命总和,源自晚期拉丁语 Fauna,她是一个乡村罗马肥沃女神,是 Faunus 的妻子、姐妹或女儿(或某种组合)(参见 faun)。
由林奈广泛使用,他将其作为 flora 的伴侣词,并在他1746年编目瑞典动物的目录的标题中使用了它,即 "Fauna Suecica."。第一次由牧师-博物学家吉尔伯特·怀特(1720-1793)在英语中使用。
动物志
动物区系
动物区系:存在于特定区域或地方内或有特定区域或地方特性的动物,可以肉眼辨认(宏观动物区系)或只能借助显微镜才能辨认(微观动物区系)
动物区系
动物群
动物区系
動物相
动物区系
生活在某一地区的全部动物种类。
动物群
New Latin, from Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus
The first known use of fauna was in 1771
favorableadjective
showing favor : approving
a favorable reply
promising, advantageous
favorable weather for the fair
favorableadjective
showing favor : approving
a favorable reply
promising, advantageous
favorable weather for the fair
favor1 of 2noun
friendly regard shown toward another
enjoyed the favor of the king
approval
look with favor on a project
partiality sense 1, preference
the judge showed favor to one side
the quality or state of being popular
lose favor
an act of kindness
do a friend a favor
a small gift given out at a party
favor2 of 2verb
to look upon or treat with favor
to do a kindness for : oblige
to treat gently or carefully : spare
favor a sore leg
prefer sense 1
to make possible or easy : help to succeed
darkness favored the attack
to look like : resemble
favors his mother
fauxadjective
imitation entry 2
faux marble
faunnoun
a figure in Roman mythology dwelling in the country and represented as part goat and part man
faunanoun
animals or animal life especially of a region, period, or environment
faunanoun
animals or animal life especially of a region, period, or environment
faunanoun
animal lifeespecially: the animals characteristic of a region, period, or special environment compare flora sense 1
1 The homeowners are avid birdwatchers, and the gilded paper reflects a variety of flora and fauna that are indigenous to the region.
2 It’s named after the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered in the mid-19th century that different species of flora and fauna grew on either side.
3 Dr. Seuss: Will: Thou knave who pens these “books” for youth, with talking fauna most uncouth: Thy “doctorate”? The thought’s absurd!
4 Spread over 125 acres hovering above the eastern end of North Terrace, the park is a peaceful haven from the buzz of the city, with an impressive selection of native and foreign flora and fauna.
5 Taken as a proportion of all species of the regional fauna, this also implies that the current count of 296 coral species for Vanuatu is similarly incomplete.
6 Even by the end of the second summer after spraying, only meager quantities of aquatic insects had reestablished themselves, and on one stream — formerly rich in bottom fauna — scarcely any could be found.
7 The paintings depict lions, panthers, bears, owls, rhinos and hyenas, suggesting a vastly different fauna at the time of the paintings to that of modern France.
8 There’s a wonderful loop walk around the falls among the 500-year-old native flora and fauna.
9 Then there are drawings of flora and fauna by a 17th-century female naturalist whose work was dismissed by the male scientists of her day.
10 After traveling to Oahu, Hawaii, to participate in a grueling rough-water swim, he began producing paintings reflecting the brilliant hues of the islands as well as the local flora and fauna.
11 A handful of tourists are drawn each spring to the Minidoka’s staggering wildflower yields and omnipresent fauna.
12 Political , Canton River, Dongxiang Hipparion fossil fauna almost entirely produced in such a rock.
和政、广河 、 东乡三趾马动物群的化石几乎全部产于这种岩石中.
13 The untamed flora and fauna of the North American continent, the minerals and other splendors of the world beneath their feet.
14 And if we wanted him to be a huggable item of Australian fauna, he was determined not to be.
15 As in The Birds, the director and the fauna seem to conspire together against the blond, beautiful heroine.
16 The Pandoran fauna and flora clearly share the philosophy of us versus them.
潘多拉的动物和植物的明确地与我们分享我们对付它们的哲学。
17 Claim to fame: Mr. DeSantis is one-third of the Manscapers, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn with an eclectic clientele drawn from the city’s cultural fauna.
18 Some indigenous people migrated to what is today Alaska, along with reciprocal movements of fauna and flora.
19 In keeping with the energy-neutral philosophy behind the project, the luminescence of the path has been carefully calibrated not to disturb the sleep cycles of local fauna.
20 Northern California’s flora and fauna — from redwood to black-widow — are described peerlessly by Tallent in all their potent beauty and teeming diversity.