fauna
Pronunciation: [ˈfau̯na]
“fauna” is an Indonesian word. Its 2 meanings in English:
noun
- animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time
- a book, cataloguing the animals of a country
Etymology
From Dutch fauna, from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus (“god of forests and herdsmen”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₂w-.
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