Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Microscopic or very small organisms, such as protozoans, that live in soil or benthic sediments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fauna in which all the animals are of minute or diminutive size; a congeries of microscopic animals, or sometimes a depauperated fauna.
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- noun The smallest of the
faunal size divisions, including mainlymicroorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniestspecies ofanimal groups such asticks ,insects , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you try ferments at home, you may find some interesting microfauna try to crash the party.
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Organisms that live within the interstitial spaces of sea ice include microfauna such as protists, and larger organisms such as ciliates, nematodes, rotatorians, turbellarians, and copepods.
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Long term manipulation of the microbes and microfauna of two subarctic heaths by addition of fungicide, bactericide, carbon and fertilizer.
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Long term manipulation of the microbes and microfauna of two subarctic heaths by addition of fungicide, bactericide, carbon and fertilizer.
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It had to preserve beneficial microfauna in the vagina that are called lactobacilli and maintain the vagina's acid balance.
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As we pointed out, farming techniques are rapidly evolving away from plowing residues back into the ground, in light of studies that show this actually reduces the organic content of the soil due to the disruption of microfauna.
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However, research has now shown this practice leads to long-term reduction of organic matter in the soil, due to disruption of soil microfauna.
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Because there was absolutely no sense of scale, some of the figures being created on the screen could have been equally well interpreted as bizarre galaxies - or the microfauna in a drop of ditchwater.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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Because there was absolutely no sense of scale, some of the figures being created on the screen could have been equally well interpreted as bizarre galaxies - or the microfauna in a drop of ditchwater.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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Therefore, we must investigate to see what the influence of this extraordinary quantitative increase in organic material added per year per hectare is on the microfauna of the soil and on the solution of the problem of the years of poverty.
INAUGURATES VOISIN 1964
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