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A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

Relating to fauna.

One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.

See Faun.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

Custody; keeping. [Obs.] Silly Faunus now within their bail. Spenser.

The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

chineal fig. -- Fig dust, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds. -- Fig faun, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. --…

; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.

goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long. Milton.

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope.