Fauna vs Aunt - What's the difference?
fauna | aunt |
(uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
(countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.
A sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.
* 2007 , Nancy Eshelman, A Piece of My Mind: Columns from the Patriot-News , page 35:
(also'' great-aunt ''or grandaunt) A person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.
(usually auntie) A grandmother.
An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
1000 English basic words
As a proper noun fauna
is (roman god) the goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of faunus.As a noun aunt is
a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.fauna
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Derived terms
* aquafauna * epifauna * faunal * infauna * macrofauna * megafauna * meiofauna * mesofauna * microfaunaCoordinate terms
* floraaunt
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(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.