(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.
Woodland
Definition:
(n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) 100 BC to AD 250) sites, suggesting a Middle to Late Woodland change in population structure that lowered levels of morphological variation.
(2) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(3) In the woodlands between Moravia, Lower Austria and Bohemia, mentioned by Ptolemaios under the Celtic name "Gabreta" (wild goats' wood, cf.
(4) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(5) Seven months later the upper half of his torso was found buried in woodland in West Sussex.
(6) In an area where California encephalitis is endemic, 10 of 19 small woodland animals (53%), which are the natural hosts of A. triseriatus, had hemagglutination-inhibiting and neutralizing antibodies to La Crosse virus.
(7) "We've got to be tough and robust in saying to people you are not in a downtrodden village or woodland, because many of them don't even live in areas where there are toilets or refuse collection facilities," he said.
(8) They will still be an important part of British woodlands, but we will be favouring the broadleaved trees in many areas," said Peter Brett, operations manager for the Forestry Commission in Dorset.
(9) He said: "Britain is not producing graduates with the expertise needed to identify and control plant diseases in our farms and woodlands."
(10) A handsome pair of strippedback brick apartment buildings will frame a forthcoming bridge across the river, leading to a woodland park beyond.
(11) • One mile from the A646 between Halifax and Hebden Bridge mrsfifties Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire Photograph: Alamy One of the most magical woodland walks I have come across.
(12) Stewart Snape, of its plant health service, said: "We know there could be OPM [oak processionary moth] in the woodland because we found a nest in it last year.
(13) The vast majority of the public oppose the government's plan to sell off all or part of the publicly owned forests and woodland in England.
(14) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(15) The panel has been asked to look at all areas of forestry in England, including increasing woodland cover, public access, protection of wildlife, the Forestry Commission and the public forest estate.
(16) Sue Holden, chief executive at the Woodland Trust, welcomed the report and Paterson's promise on the register, but said more funding was needed if plant health was to reach parity with animal health.
(17) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(18) The goddess Diana and her nymphs are bathing in a woodland pool when the hunter Actaeon chances by.
(19) When you come to a crossroads with the main drive ahead of you, head straight for a short distance and then take the marked path through the woodland on the right.
(20) The original version incorrectly described a Woodland Trust wood in Suffolk as new.