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.
1. Lacking a backbone or spinal column; not vertebrate. 2. Of or relating to invertebrates: invertebrate zoology. n. An animal, such as an insect or mollusk, that lacks a backbone or spinal column.nvertebrate. n. 1. (Zoology) any animal lacking a backbone, including all species not classified as vertebrates. adj. 2. (Zoology) of, relating to, or designating invertebrates.