Megafauna
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Megafauna is a noun meaning The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.
Meaning
The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.
More Meanings
- A treatise on such a group of large animals.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- megafaunas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fauna, macrofauna, mastofauna, megamammal, megafelid, aquafauna.
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