megafauna

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

megafaunas plural megafauna plural

词汇关系

衍生词
charismatic megafauna megafaunal

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English fauna
English megafauna
From mega- + fauna.
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