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fauna definition

fauna ()

noun pl. faunas -·nas or faunae -·nae (-nē)

  1. the animals of a specified region or time the fauna of North America
  2. a descriptive list of such animals

Etymology: ModL < LL Fauna, sister of Faunus: adopted by Carolus Linnaeus (1746) as term parallel to flora

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