fauna

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1. fauna - Noun

2. Fauna - Proper noun

Meaning

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna. François Mauriac

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.) Ilana Mercer

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town. Henry David Thoreau

I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I. P. G. Wodehouse

Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate! Joss Whedon

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