fauna

Other forms of fauna

plural

faunae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fauna

What does fauna mean?

fauna means "all the animal life in a particular region or period". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fauna?

fauna has 2 syllables: fau-na. The stress falls on "fau". In IPA it is /ˈfɔnə/.

What is another word for fauna?

Close synonyms include zoology, animal, animate being, beast, brute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fauna?

The recorded antonyms are flora.

Is fauna a common word?

fauna is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.