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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