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Definition of Faunist
1. n. One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
Definition of Faunist
1. Noun. One who describes the fauna of a country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faunist
1. someone who studies fauna [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faunist
Literary usage of Faunist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"... who in the first year of this century was known in hese pages as “A Southern
faunist.” Here is an extract from one if his letters :—--“ Much solicitude ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"1791; and there, under the signature of “a Southern faunist,” I fancy I recognise
the pen of the philosophic ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"faunist. The only quadrupeds particularized in this volume are, the Horse, Ox,
Sheep, Hog, Cat, Dog, Otter, Weasel, Seal, Rabbit, the Black and the Brown ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"... truly astonishing ; and it is scarcely less surprising that their notorious
negligence in this respect should pass wholly unnoticed by our Rev. faunist. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... like the rest of > the group, was a place very difficult of access, and, in
1821, Faber, the well-known faunist of Iceland, failed to land upon it, ..."
6. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1906)
"Some future faunist, a man of fortune, will, I hope, extend his visits to the
kingdom of Ireland ; a new field, and a country little known to the naturalist ..."
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