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.
Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young. [From Late Latin mammÄlis, of the breast, from Latin mamma, breast; see mÄ- in Indo-European roots.]