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Faunal vs Fauna - What's the difference?

faunal | fauna |

Fauna is a derived term of faunal.



As an adjective faunal

is pertaining to animals.

As a noun fauna is

animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

As a proper noun Fauna is

the goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus.

faunal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to animals.
  • Pertaining to a specific fauna of a given region or time.

    • Usage notes

    A technical term; in conversation, one instead uses animal attributively.

    Hyponyms

    * bestial

    fauna

    English

    Noun

  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * aquafauna * epifauna * faunal * infauna * macrofauna * megafauna * meiofauna * mesofauna * microfauna

    Coordinate terms

    * flora