• n. 動物群；[動] 動物區系
• n. (Fauna)人名；(瑞典)福納

來自拉丁語Fauna, Faunua的妻子，姐妹或女兒。-a, 表陰性。瑞典植物學家林奈借用該詞來指動物群，以與植物群flora相匹配。

fauna

fauna: [18] Fauna was a Roman goddess of the countryside, sister of Faunus (the Roman equivalent of Greek Pan) who was a nature and fertility god worshipped by shepherds, farmers, etc. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus applied her name in 1746 to his catalogue of the animals of Sweden, Fauna suecica ‘Swedish Fauna’, and it has been used since then as a collective term for the animal life of a region (one of the earliest records of its use in English is by the naturalist Gilbert White in 1771). (Faunus, source of English faun [14], may be related ultimately to Latin favēre ‘regard favourably’, source of English favour.)
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fauna (n.)

1771, "the total of the animal life of a certain region or time, from Late Latin Fauna, a rustic Roman fertility goddess who was wife, sister, or daughter (or some combination) of Faunus (see faun).

Popularized by Linnaeus, who adopted it as a companion word to flora and used it in the title of his 1746 catalogue of the animals of Sweden, "Fauna Suecica." First used in English Gilbert White (1720-1793) the parson-naturalist.

1. A vacant lot or a bombsite can, to the amateur naturalist, produce an extraordinary variety of flora and fauna.

對于業余博物學者來說，在一片空地上或被炸后的廢墟里可能發現種類繁多的植物群和動物群。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Litter breakdown or fragmentation is due to the litter fauna.

落葉層粉碎的原因在于落葉層的動物相.

來自辭典例句

3. The fauna in the Joli Fou consists of bivalves and arenaceous forams.

喬里富組內的化石主要是雙殼類和砂殼有孔蟲.

來自辭典例句

4. All of this unfolds into a panorama of beautifully balanced fauna and flora.

組合成了奇異的“動植物王國”.

來自漢英文學 - 散文英譯

5. There they compile precious documents on the manners, government, religion, fauna and flora of the country.

他們在這里搜集了不少關于風俗 、 政府 、 宗教 、 當地動植物等方面的寶貴資料.

來自辭典例句