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PRONUNCIATION OF INFAUNA

infauna  [ɪnˈfɔːnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFAUNA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infauna is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INFAUNA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

infauna

Fauna

Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess Shale fauna". Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which is a series of rocks all containing similar fossils.

Definition of infauna in the English dictionary

The definition of infauna in the dictionary is the fauna living below the surface of ocean and river beds.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFAUNA


anguifauna
ˈæŋwɪˌfɔːnə
avifauna
ˌeɪvɪˈfɔːnə
corner
ˈkɔːnə
cremorne
krɪˈmɔːnə
dauner
ˈdɔːnə
entomofauna
enˈtɒməˌfɔːnə
epifauna
ˈɛpɪˌfɔːnə
fauna
ˈfɔːnə
herpetofauna
ˈhɜːpɪtəʊˌfɔːnə
horner
ˈhɔːnə
ichthyofauna
ˌɪkθɪəˈfɔːnə
macrofauna
ˈmækrəʊˌfɔːnə
megafauna
ˈmɛɡəˌfɔːnə
meiofauna
ˈmaɪəʊˌfɔːnə
microfauna
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfɔːnə
mourner
ˈmɔːnə
piscifauna
ˈpɪsɪˌfɔːnə
sauna
ˈsɔːnə
spawner
ˈspɔːnə
warner
ˈwɔːnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFAUNA

infantility
infantilization
infantilize
infantine
infantries
infantry
infantry division
infantryman
infantrymen
infants
infarct
infarcted
infarction
infare
infatuate
infatuated
infatuatedly
infatuation
infaunal
infaust

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFAUNA

abuna
Arjuna
bhuna
Buna
Duna
Eskilstuna
Fortuna
Kaduna
kahuna
Kiruna
koruna
kuna
lacuna
laguna
Luna
Nagarjuna
Pampeluna
puna
tuna
vicuna

Synonyms and antonyms of infauna in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infauna» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFAUNA

Find out the translation of infauna to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of infauna from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infauna» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海底动物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infauna
570 millions of speakers

English

infauna
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

infauna
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infauna
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инфауны
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infauna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

infauna
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

endofaune
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infauna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Infauna
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

インファウナ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infauna
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infauna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infauna
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infauna
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनाना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infauna
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infauna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infauna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інфауни
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infauna
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βενθική πανίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infauna
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infauna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infauna
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infauna

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFAUNA»

The term «infauna» is normally little used and occupies the 127.238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFAUNA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «infauna» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «infauna» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infauna

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFAUNA»

Discover the use of infauna in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infauna and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Introduction to Marine Biology
While doing fieldwork in the Chesapeake Bay estuary, Dr. Virnstein observed that populations of infauna living in shallow-water subtidal communities contained fewer animals in areas that lacked any vegetation for cover compared with similar  ...
George Karleskint, Richard Turner, James Small, 2012
2
Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life
A few centimeters below the mud surface, the interstitial water is generally devoid of available oxygen, and the infauna must obtain their oxygen from the water just above the mud or do without. The numerous openings of tubes and burrows on ...
John Morrissey, James Sumich, 2011
3
Examining the Prey Resource Value of Diel-cycling Hypoxia ...
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Danielle Tuzzolino, 2008
4
Responsible Marine Aquaculture
Effects of farm wastes on benthic infauna The biological response of infauna to the sediment physicochemical changes occurring as a result of organic loading from salmon farms has been assessed by Hargrave(1994). Henderson and Ross  ...
Robert R. Stickney, James P. McVey, 2002
5
Marine Reef Aquarium Handbook
Aragonite has several advantages over limestone and shell hash. lts composition and particle size promote a growth of sand-living microbes and minute invertebrates (infauna or meio- fauna). These infauna protect the sand from blooms of ...
Robert Jay Goldstein, 2007
6
Global Seagrass Research Methods
Although there are no universal "standard methods" for sampling infauna of seagrasses, some approaches and samplers are clearly superior to others. In his review of quantitative sampling of soft-sediments, Blomqvist (1991) described coring ...
F.T. Short, R.G. Coles, 2001
7
Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology
The infauna (which may occupy more than half the surface of our globe) is most fully developed below the intertidal zone. Such constantly submerged infaunas are associated with a level bottom (whether sandy or muddy) and are exposed to  ...
Joel W. Iledgpeth and Harry S. Ladd, 1957
8
Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHAB Atlas of ...
However, this assemblage was numerically dominated by five species (Maeridae sp., Kalliapseudes sp., Copepoda sp., Asellota sp., Grammaridae sp.) that accounted for 55% of the total infauna recorded, while most species recorded were ...
Peter T. Harris, Elaine K. Baker, 2011
9
Plant-Animal Communication
Such temporary water bodies often support micro-fauna (often termed infauna or inquiline communities). The benefits of different infauna to the plant are likely to be complex: some may aid in prey decomposition in a way that benefits the ...
H. Martin Schaefer, Graeme D. Ruxton, 2011
10
Estuarine Ecology
Benthic consumers are key intermediates in estuarine systems because a large fraction of the flow of energy is associated with sediments both on the bottom and in suspension and channeled through infauna and/or epifauna. Top-down ...
John W. Day, W. Michael Kemp, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFAUNA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infauna is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nemtsov's eldest daughter leaves Russia
... batch of Russian-produced "Infauna" radio intelligence complexes delivered to Armenia · 27/05/2015 Graparak newspaper: Hepatitis B-infected being drafted ... «APA, Jun 15»
2
First batch of Russian-produced "Infauna" radio intelligence …
Baku – APA. The first batch of "Infauna" radio intelligence complexes were brought to the Russian military base in Armenia, the Southern ... «APA, May 15»
3
Living Shorelines
... any type of vegetation tend to support lower abundance and diversity of fish and crustaceans, also of benthic infauna, so invertebrate that fish ... «Public Radio East, Apr 14»
4
Kan vi finne gull i gjørme?
Det første redskapet vi bruker er grabben som samler dyr som bor nede i de øverste centimeterne av havbunnen (infauna) fra bløtbunn. «Havforskningsinstituttet, Jun 13»
5
Making the News in May
... of Nutritional Ant–Plant Interaction: Ant Partners of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Prevent Nutrient Export by Dipteran Pitcher Infauna”. Citations:. «PLoS Blogs, Jun 13»
6
Ants on Burglar Watch
... “A novel type of nutritional ant-plant interaction: ant partners of carnivorous pitcher plants prevent nutrient export by dipteran pitcher infauna,” ... «Scientist, May 13»
7
Quakes push up Estuary bed
... years old bubbled to the surface, completely changing the ecology of the waterway and smothering some of the infauna - the tiny critters that ... «Waikato Times, Jan 12»
8
The Fate of the Last Great Wilderness
Abyssal plains, characterized by mobile epifauna and infauna. Manganese-nodule provinces, specific habitat on abyssal plains, characterized ... «Mother Jones, Aug 11»
9
Gulf's Recovery From BP Oil Spill Could Take Years
Looking out the window of Alvin, at first, it did not seem to be so bad but as we got nearer to the bottom, I realized there were no infauna (worms ... «International Business Times, Feb 11»
10
Gulf Oil Spill a "Dead Zone in the Making"?
Infauna, or small organisms such as clams and tubeworms that live in ocean sediments, are vital food sources for shorebirds and other coastal ... «National Geographic, May 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Infauna [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/infauna>. Apr 2024 ».
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