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What is meant by "flaura and fhona"? Is it any idiom? Please bear with me for wrong spelling if any?
I might have made spelling errors. But I remember the phonetics. What is the meaning of that idiom? Thanks in advance
10 Answers
- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
Flora= plant life
Fauna= animal life
The term is applied to mean all types of life in a given place.
- LaurenceLv 77 years ago
Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers (flores) and came to mean all (plant) life under her protection, and so all the plants of an area.
Fauna was the Roman goddess-wife of Faunus, the equivalent of the Greek god Pan, the god of shepherds and their flocks, so, a way of referring to all the animal life in a region. Using the goddess' name in association with Flora made "Flora et Fauna", a neat alliterative way of referring to all the plant and animal life in an area. This Latin phrase passed into most Western European languages and is used and understood in all of them.
Source(s): " - IrrfyLv 57 years ago
Its written as flora & fauna,it means flowering plants (flora) and Animals (fauna),its used as a idiom
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- trueproberLv 77 years ago
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- 6 years ago
Flora is plant life
Fauna is animal life
Flora and Fauna is a term used for any kind of living plant or animal on the earth. It is not applicable to two of the four types of organisms in the Eukarya Domain, however. It only applies to plants and animals.
- 7 years ago
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.
- wendaloreLv 77 years ago
Here's how I remember it.
"Flores" means "Flowers" in Spanish.
A "fawn" is a baby deer (animal)