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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

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  • 7 years ago
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    Flora= plant life

    Fauna= animal life

    The term is applied to mean all types of life in a given place.

  • 7 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.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Its written as flora & fauna,it means flowering plants (flora) and Animals (fauna),its used as a idiom

  • sanity
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Flora and Fauna - plants/flowers and animals.

  • 7 years ago

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  • frank
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    flora .all plant life

    fauna . all animal life

    biota . all fungi such as mushrooms

  • 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.

  • 7 years ago

    Here's how I remember it.

    "Flores" means "Flowers" in Spanish.

    A "fawn" is a baby deer (animal)

  • flora-plants

    fauna-animals

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