(n.) A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen minutes later, I was driving through freezing rain and fog in the mountains, trying – and failing – to reach the ancient forest at Fanal.)
Faunal
Definition:
(a.) Relating to fauna.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to reviewing the faunal evidence, the highly relevant environmental and archaeological backgrounds are summarized.
(2) Some limited terrestrial faunal exchanges that occur during the Messinian between southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa do not deeply affect the general faunal dynamics.
(3) These differences appear in the physical, chemical and faunal aspects of the rivers, and mostly during periods of drought.
(4) The faunal composition of mosquitoes caught by species was (in descending order) Culex quinquefasciatus, Cx.
(5) The implications are that the parasite species distributions and character of parasite faunas will vary according to the distribution of the fishes and local faunal assemblages.
(6) Faunal impacts in the pond were generally of a smaller magnitude than were predicted by bioassay results.
(7) vulgaris Filippova and to certain other species of the eastern area of the Palearctic Faunal Region; it differs distinctly from A.
(8) Previously, this tick has not been reported from the Ethiopian Faunal Region (Kenya).
(9) Major faunal differences between the two environments reflected the extensive saline marsh and mudflat estuarine habitats at Batemans Bay and the predominantly freshwater stream, marsh, and lake habitats of Termeil State Forest.
(10) Biostratigraphic studies suggest a 13.6-15.2 Ma for the Friasian faunal zone.
(11) The fossil remains of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus specimen from Sterkfontein Member 4 temporally confined on faunal grounds to 2.5-3.0 million years before the present (Myr B.P.)
(12) Surveys of demersal fishes and macrofaunal invertebrates in the North Atlantic indicate 1) there is little evidence of coherence and continuity of faunal zones around the ocean basin and 2) that the community concept should be abandoned because faunal assemblages only persist on a local scale.
(13) Furthermore, this allowed for the comparison of the variations in ontogenesis (augmentation or reduction in the development), in relation to abiotic (detrital supply and upwelling processes) and biotic ecological factors (faunal density and interspecific competition).
(14) These isotopic data are consistent with pathological, faunal, and artifactual evidence of increased marine resource exploitation during the late prehistoric period.
(15) Both these latter formations have yielded faunal and floral assemblages that are very similar to those found at Nehden.
(16) Yet he was engaged also in faunal studies and became a reknown expert in entomology.
(17) Recent research shows that lowland forests of the Amazon Basin differ in numerous ways including features of climate and soils, faunal composition and forest structure, composition and phenology.
(18) Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer 1776), a distinctive tick of the Palearctic faunal region is redescribed from 941 specimens collected throughout its geographical range.
(19) On the basis of faunal analysis of 1.2 mln fleas collected from about 300,000 individuals belonging to 30 species of small mammals were obtained average indices of abundance and similarity between faunas of ectoparasites of different animals in a number of autonomous plague nidi of the Aral sea area.