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all the animal life — especially in a particular region or period

She is an expert on the fauna of the rain forest.

His papers on the fauna and flora made him known to scientific societies.
Conrad, Joseph -- Amy Foster
Also a few pages might have been given up profitably to the consideration of the indigenous flora and fauna of Kukuanaland.
Haggard, Rider H. -- King Solomon's Mines
I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
"The most useful of this planet's indigenous fauna.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
In the hierarchy of schools, teachers are the most expendable of creatures, the fauna of classrooms who can be replaced as easily as lightbulbs.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
He also observed that the fauna there bore a strong resemblance to many of the species he had seen in South America.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
—I say, Fauna Lal and Callendar'll get the sack."
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Cadets were a rare and vanishing species of American fauna, and our contests were like duels between well-groomed gentlemen.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
An example of the local fauna.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
I am not speaking of transplanted Terran flora and fauna — our stuff moves in and brushes the native stuff aside.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
Everything they needed to restore the peoples of the Earth, and the flora, and the fauna.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Again there was hardly a sound, save the sharp, high songs of the nighttime fauna.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
I study and classify the fauna.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
I was too shaken to pretend that I'd spent an uneventful day with the flora and fauna.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
"Oh, just the local flora and fauna," Kate said, closing her notebook.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
] [Footnote 504: Fauna.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Flora and fauna are so closely associated in the underwater world!
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Now here she was, somehow making the cosmic leap of logic from dead flora in a pot to living fauna in the pet classifieds.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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