Megafauna

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A treatise on such a group of large animals.

Example

More examples

"Giraffes are part of modern day megafauna."

Etymology

From mega- + fauna.

Related phrases

charismatic megafauna

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