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Meaning of "infaunal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFAUNAL

infaunal  [ɪnˈfɔːnəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFAUNAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infaunal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFAUNAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

infaunal

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 infaunal in the English dictionary

The definition of infaunal in the dictionary is of or relating to infauna.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFAUNAL


avifaunal
ˌeɪvɪˈfɔːnəl
colonel
ˈkɜːnəl
cornel
ˈkɔːnəl
epifaunal
ˈɛpɪˌfɔːnəl
eternal
ɪˈtɜːnəl
external
ɪkˈstɜːnəl
faunal
ˈfɔːnəl
ichthyofaunal
ˌɪkθɪəʊˈfɔːnəl
infernal
ɪnˈfɜːnəl
internal
ɪnˈtɜːnəl
journal
ˈdʒɜːnəl
kernel
ˈkɜːnəl
maternal
məˈtɜːnəl
megafaunal
ˌmɛɡəˈfɔːnəl
meiofaunal
ˌmaɪəʊˈfɔːnəl
microfaunal
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈfɔːnəl
nocturnal
nɒkˈtɜːnəl
penal
ˈpiːnəl
renal
ˈriːnəl
tribunal
traɪˈbjuːnəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFAUNAL

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFAUNAL

appeals tribunal
arbitration tribunal
communal
employment tribunal
Hague Tribunal
industrial tribunal
intercommunal
jejunal
lacunal
nounal
shogunal
Waitangi Tribunal

Synonyms and antonyms of infaunal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infaunal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFAUNAL

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The translations of infaunal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infaunal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

infaunal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infaunal
570 millions of speakers

English

infaunal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

infaunal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infaunal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

infaunal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infaunal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

infaunal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

endofaunique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infaunal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Infauna
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

infaunal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infaunal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infaunal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infaunal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infaunal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपुरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infaunal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

endobionti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infaunal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

infaunal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infaunal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

infaunal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infaunal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infaunal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

faunaen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infaunal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFAUNAL»

The term «infaunal» is normally little used and occupies the 130.192 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFAUNAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «infaunal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «infaunal» 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 infaunal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFAUNAL»

Discover the use of infaunal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infaunal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Infaunal Effects on Permeable Sediment Processes
The results from this research highlight the importance of infauna to permeable sediment processes, while recognizing the limitations of their effects under different physical regimes.
George Gerard Waldbusser, 2008
2
Marine Ecological Processes: A derivative of the ...
For descriptive purposes, it is useful to recognize a number of different microhabitats: epifaunal and shallow infaunal for species living close to the sediment surface (upper 2cm); intermediate infaunal for species living between about 1cm and ...
John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, Karl K. Turekian, 2010
3
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2372
Organisms Life Habits Feeding Habits Bivalves Macoma calcarea infaunal deposit-feeders Macoma moesta infaunal ... Yoldia sp. infaunal deposit-feeders Nucula sp. infaunal deposit-feeders Nuculana sp. infaunal deposit-feeders Astarte ...
Maclean, B, Vilks, G, Aitken, A
4
Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Sedimentary ...
The ammonite Sciponoceras is typically abundant; the infaunal CLAYDOMINATED TRANSITIONAL I A5 Cl ,_. ... are as follows: A I Biofacies suite comprised of complex, diverse (greater than six species per sample) mixed infaunal/ epifaunal ...
Dale Nations, J. Dale Nations, Jeffrey G. Eaton, 1991
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Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography
Figure 3 shows the relative frequencies of deep infaunal taxa immediately below sapropels S5 and S6. In the rather oligotrophic environments of the central Mediterranean, Globobulimina spp., Chilostomella spp. and other deep infaunal taxa ...
C. Hillaire-Marcel, Anne de Vernal, 2007
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Marine Eutrophication and Population Dynamics: 25th European ...
How do intermediate infaunal predators function between fish predators and infaunal prey? Some tests in aquaria Johanna Mattila Department of Biology & Huso Biological Station, Abo Akademi , SF-20500 Abo, Finland Present address:  ...
Giuseppe Colombo, 1992
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Ocean Acidification
9.5.3 Greater tolerance to hypercapnia in terms of survival and behaviour As mentioned above, tolerance to hypercapnia is assumed to be a feature of infaunal organisms. Certainly the spatangoid heart urchin E chinocardium cordatum shows ...
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Lina Hansson, 2011
8
Echinodermata
The epifaunal habit gave way to an infaunal life style (Vermeij 1977). Stalked crinoids were apparently not a part of shallow-water communities after the Jurassic (Meyer and Macurda 1977), so the maximum levels of tiering were not realized in ...
Brendan F. Keegan, Brendan D.S. O'Connor, 1985
9
Patterns of evolution, as illustrated by the fossil record
4). Otherwise pedicellariae are Mesozoic and later features. Behavioural protection involves a variety of acts from simply dwelling in crevices, through cryptic camouflage and infaunal behaviour, to dymantic display. Again fossil evidence is not ...
A. Hallam, 1977
10
Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls
An attempt has been made to distinguish here between infaunal communities of pelecypods and epifaunal communities in Benthic Assemblage 1. This brings up the basic question whether or not the epifauna and the infauna in a particular ...
A.J. Boucot, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFAUNAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infaunal is used in the context of the following news items.
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First mussel polygon reopened after massive closure due to red tide
... raft polygons remain closed (except for two of oyster and the mussel polygon of Cambados A2), as well as 23 of infaunal shellfish banks. «FIS, Jul 15»
2
Mantle margin morphogenesis in Nodipecten nodosus (Mollusca …
... mantle margin and siphon formation are among the key features associated with the evolutionary radiation of infaunal bivalves [6], [16], [17]. «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
3
Climate Change Will Cause "Staggering" Changes to the Deep Sea
... particularly for the typically sediment-dwelling infaunal organisms (macro and meiofaunal)," the authors write, noting that such effects have ... «Motherboard, Jan 14»
4
A Year After Sandy, The Wrong Policy on Rebuilding the Coast
Once, these beaches were the homes of foraging and nesting shorebirds, infaunal organisms, turtles, etc. Now, it is the beaches themselves ... «Yale Environment 360, Oct 13»
5
A selection of primary literature on the ecology of deep-sea …
Hydrothermal fluids passing through sediments create a habitat hypothesized to influence the community structure of infaunal macrobenthos. «Southern Fried Science, Aug 12»
6
Mariana Trench xenophyophores both strange and fantastic!
Most are epifaunal (living atop the seabed), but one species (Occultammina profunda), is known to be infaunal; it buries itself up to 6 cm deep ... «Examiner.com, Oct 11»
7
The Fate of the Last Great Wilderness
... such as cold-water corals, seeps, oxygen minimum zones), characterized by demersal fauna as well as epifaunal and infaunal benthos. «Mother Jones, Aug 11»
8
The Shinnecock Bay Brown Tide
Seagrass Patch Size and Survivorship of an Infaunal Bivalve Oikos, 78 (3) DOI: 10.2307/3545612. Dennison, WC, Marshall GJ, & Wigand, ... «Southern Fried Science, Jul 11»
9
Lagoon Pond is sick, healing will be costly
“The primary habitat issue within the Lagoon Pond embayment system relates to the general loss of eelgrass beds and impaired infaunal ... «Martha's Vineyard Times, Mar 11»
10
Gulf's Recovery From BP Oil Spill Could Take Years
Usually, there is a tremendous diversity of infaunal organisms on the bottom. Then, we began to see dead organisms like brittle stars. I noticed ... «International Business Times, Feb 11»

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