faunal region
1faunal region — ▪ biogeography also called Zoogeographic Region, any of six or seven areas of the world defined by animal geographers on the basis of their distinctive animal life. These regions differ only slightly from the floristic regions (q.v.) of… …
2faunal region — An area where certain groups of animals are found …
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4region — /ree jeuhn/, n. 1. an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth. 2. Usually, regions. the vast or indefinite entirety of a space or area, or something compared to one: the regions of the firmament; the regions …
5faunal — fauna ► NOUN ▪ the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. Compare with FLORA(Cf. ↑flora). DERIVATIVES faunal adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from Fauna, a rural goddess and the sister of Faunus (see FAUN(Cf. ↑faun)) …
6Ethiopian region — ▪ faunal region also called Afrotropical Region, one of the major land areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. Part of the Paleotropical, or Afro Tethyan, realm, it encompasses Africa south of the Sahara …
7Holarctic region — ▪ faunal region one of the six major land areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. It encompasses all the nontropical parts of Europe and Asia, Africa north of the Sahara, and North America south to the… …
8region — re•gion [[t]ˈri dʒən[/t]] n. 1) an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth[/ex] 2) Usu., regions. the vast or indefinite entirety of a space or area, or something compared to one: the regions of the… …
9Australian region — ▪ faunal region one of the six major land areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. It encompasses Australia and the outlying islands of Tasmania, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Melanesia,… …
10Neotropical region — ▪ faunal region also called South American region, one of the six major biogeographic areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. It extends south from the Mexican desert into South America as far as the… …
