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microfauna

microfauna noun: the smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.

Noun

microfauna (plural microfaunae or microfaunas)

  1. The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.

microfauna meaning in Tamil

microfauna in Tamil

நுண்நோக்கியில் காணக்கூடிய விலங்கினம்

Forms of microfauna

pluralmicrofaunae
pluralmicrofaunas

Origin of microfauna

From micro- (“small, tiny”) + fauna (“animals”).

Words formed from microfauna

Questions about microfauna

What does microfauna mean?
Microfauna means the smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.
What is microfauna in Tamil?
Microfauna in Tamil is நுண்நோக்கியில் காணக்கூடிய விலங்கினம். See Microfauna meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is microfauna?
Microfauna is a noun.
What is the plural of microfauna?
The plural of microfauna is microfaunae.

Words near microfauna in the dictionary

  1. microfarmers
  2. microfarming
  3. microfarms
  4. microfault
  5. microfaults
  6. microfauna
  7. microfaunae
  8. microfaunal
  9. microfaunas
  10. microfear
  11. microfears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microfauna (page history and authors); microfauna (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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