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Flora's animal counterpart, named after a Roman goddess nobody worships anymore.
means The animal life of a particular region, habitat, or time period, considered as a group.
from From Fauna, a Roman goddess of fertility, forests, and wildlife, sister (or wife, accounts vary) to Faunus, the horned god of the countryside. The naturalist Linnaeus borrowed her name in the 1700s to title a catalog of Swedish animals, mirroring his earlier use of 'Flora' for plants — the two goddesses becoming forever paired in scientific shorthand, one for the green world, one for the creatures moving through it.
- origin
- Named after Fauna, Roman goddess of animals
- pairs with
- Flora, for plants, always cited together
- scope
- Covers all animal life in a region or era
- usage
- Scientists say it to sound less like zookeepers