animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
(noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
fauna, zoology
(noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period; “the fauna of China”; “the zoology of the Pliocene epoch”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fauna (countable and uncountable, plural faunae or faunas or faunæ)
(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. [from late 18th c.]
(countable) A book, cataloguing the animals of a country.
• flora
Fauna
(Roman god) The goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus.
A female given name from Latin.
Source: Wiktionary
Fau"na, n. Etym: [NL.: cf. F. faune. See Faun.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.