Hypernyms (float is a kind of...): artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of float): bob; bobber; bobfloat; cork (a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line) chip (a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line)
Fauna can refer to the animal life or classification of animals of a certain region, time period, or environment. Fauna is also of Latin origin. In Roman Mythology Fauna was the sister of Faunus, a good spirit of the forest and plains.
Members of the mammalian order Carnivora are the descendants of a successful late Paleocene radiation of mammals whose primitive food habits were carnivorous. The name Carnivora is sometimes taken to mean that members of this group are all carnivorous or that all carnivorous mammals are members of this group. This is not so.