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faunas

faunas is the plural of fauna.

Meaning of fauna

Noun

fauna (countable and uncountable, plural faunae or faunas or faunæ)

  1. (uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, biological group, etc.
    • the flora and fauna
  2. (countable) A particular group of animals as distinguished from another.
    • More than this, at least twenty genera, which are common to New Guinea and Aru, do not extend into Ceram, indicating with a force which every naturalist will appreciate, that the two latter countries have received their faunas in a radically different manner.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 291
  3. (countable) A book cataloguing the animals of a country.

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Questions about faunas

What is faunas the plural of?
Faunas is the plural of fauna.

Words near faunas in the dictionary

  1. faunal assemblage
  2. faunal assemblages
  3. faunally
  4. faunalturbation
  5. faunalturbations
  6. faunas
  7. faunated
  8. Faunce
  9. Faunces
  10. faunch
  11. faunched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faunas (page history and authors); fauna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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