The nadir (UK: /ËnÃ¦dÉªÉr/), (US: /ËneÉªdÉªÉr/) (from Arabic: ÙØ¸ÙØ±ââ / ALA-LC: naáºÄ«r, meaning counterpart[a]) is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface there.
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. Classified under: Nouns with no superordinates. Synonyms: animal; animate being; beast; creature; fauna; brute. Hypernyms (animal is a kind of...): being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently) Meronyms (parts of animal): caput; head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains) face (the part of an animal corresponding to the human face) Meronyms (substance of animal): animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
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.auna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.