(n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Example Sentences:
(1) You don't really start having teenage crushes when you're a teenager – those feelings start much earlier, although you're too much of a wide-eyed faun to properly identify what they are.
(2) 1.1.1.14) was studied in liver, kidney and gonads of Zenaida auriculata auriculata (golden pigeon) and of Anas platyrhynchos (creole domestic duck) from South American faunes.
(3) Faune et écosystèmes frappés par des impacts « sévères » et « généralisés ».
(4) London , Friday night If a faun could go through a needle's eye it would come out looking rather like Yves Saint-Laurent.
(5) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(6) A lengthy story in the New York Times announced him as “one of the most celebrated stage actors of his generation”, adding that “his calling card is a soulful fragility, all faun-like bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane”.
(7) The employment of a CDC light trap proved to be a useful tool in determining the local faune.
(8) If it disappears, all the other wildlife will go too," says Jean-Paul Burget, who set up the Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage organisation in 1993 in an attempt to save the species, subsequently lodging a complaint with the European commission in 2007.
Fauna
Definition:
(n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Example Sentences:
(1) The composition of the Trichostrongyloidea fauna of Chiroptera and its relationship with Trichostrongyloidea from other Mammals (Tupaiidae, Pholidotes, Primates, Sciuridés) are analysed.
(2) Opponents say that by giving development plans green credentials that may be spurious, offsetting speeds up planning approvals in practice, and limits natural environments for flora and fauna in absolute terms.
(3) According to the difference in pesticide content in fish tissues in spring and autumn we can localize the source of COP contamination of water fauna and terrestrial ecosystems of different protected areas possessing water bodies.
(4) White-tailed deer harbored 19 species of parasites; all were typical of the parasite fauna of this species in coastal regions of the southeastern United States.
(5) Protozoal contribution to the microbial N flowing from the rumen of animals with normal fauna was estimated to be 24 and 27% with and without the urea supplement respectively.
(6) 1), are from the Paskapoo Formation, at Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, from beds yielding a diverse mammalian fauna of early Tiffanian age.
(7) The rest part of the fauna consists of the different mites got into house by chance.
(8) The absorption and retention of Cu was 38-50% higher in the fauna-free than in the faunated rams.
(9) The parasite fauna of Stellifer minor taken off Chorrillos, Perú, include the monogeneans Pedocotyle annakohni, Pedocotyle bravoi, Rhamnocercus sp.
(10) A comparative evaluation of the fauna structure, numbers and frequency of the allergenic mites in the flat dust of the allergic patients and healthy people as well as premises is given.
(11) For all these reasons, the cost evaluation must take into account the sanitary sector, keeping in mind the difficulty to appraise the consequential effects on climate and fauna.
(12) On the whole the helminth fauna of fishes examined at the Saya-de-Malya bank does not demonstrate the endemic pattern.
(13) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
(14) The polling was conducted by Nielsen for the Humane Society International (HSI) and the Vietnam Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
(15) gambiae s. l. is responsible for the transmission of malaria, it represents 93.27% of the anopheline fauna.
(16) "We always find deposits of mega-fauna and, on occasion, we find arrowheads next to them," said Rincón.
(17) Nematospiroides dubius, Corrigia vitta and Capillaria murissylvatici were important in discriminating between the parasite faunas at different sites.
(18) Data on fauna of bloodsucking mosquitos (Culicidae), obtained during the survey in the irrigated part of Takhta-Kupyr District of Kara-Kalpakia in 1988-1989, are presented.
(19) Daniel Steadman, from Fauna & Flora International, which produces The Good Scrub Guide , said the loopholes were unacceptable: “When the public say they do not want microbeads, they do not expect a technical discussion about what microbeads are, they want products that don’t cause environmental pollution after they use them.
(20) No Monte Desert rodent has developed the specialized desert traits that have evolved in most desert rodent faunas of the world, although extinct marsupials similar to living bipedal desert rodents were present in the Monte as recently as late Pliocene.