Crossword-Solution: FAUNAE
We have 11 clues for the answer “FAUNAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Animal life of various regions | 1 answer |
| Animal populations | 1 answer |
| Florae counterparts | 1 answer |
| Groups of regional animals | 1 answer |
| Indigenous creatures | 1 answer |
| Treatises on animals | 1 answer |
| Zoological groupings | 1 answer |
| Animal groups | 2 answers |
| Regional animal groups | 2 answers |
| Zoological groups | 2 answers |
| Regional animal life | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FAUNAE (5)
Again, note as bearing upon the same point, the singular likeness which obtains between the successive Faunae and Florae, whose remains are preserved on the rocks: you never find any great and enormous difference between the immediately successive Faunae and Florae, unless you have reason to believe there has also been a great lapse of time or a great change of conditions.
Thus:-- Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time.
The distribution of life in the rivers and lakes of Brazil, the immense number of species and their local circumscription, as distinct faunae in definite areas of the same water-basin, amazed him; while the character of the soil and other geological features confirmed him in his preconceived belief that the glacial period could not have been less than cosmic in its influence.
This would be the more important as, with the exception of Brazil, hardly anything is known of the shore faunae upon the greater part of the South American coast.
Thus:--Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time.
Quotes with FAUNAE (1)
To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physical knowledge, is to shift the constituents of the never-varying total. The law of conservation rigidly excludes both creation and annihilation. Waves may change to ripples, and ripples to waves; magnitude may be substituted for number, and number for magnitude; asteroids may aggr…
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1991–2022).