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megafauna

noun

Etymology

From mega- + fauna.

  1. derived from Fauna
  2. borrowed from fauna
  3. prefixed as megafauna — “mega + fauna”

Definitions

  1. The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.

    • The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna had ended there long before it had in Europe, and so a "broad spectrum" of food collecting had been going on for some time.

  2. A treatise on such a group of large animals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for megafauna. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA