megafauna
noun 2
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2ADJ.
modern
VERB + MEGAFAUNA
isn't
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noun
1
The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.
The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna had ended there long before it had in Europe, and so a "broad spectrum" of food collecting had been going on for some time.
2
A treatise on such a group of large animals.
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The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna had ended there long before it had in Europe, and so a "broad spectrum" of food collecting had been going on for some time.
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Giraffes are part of modern day megafauna.
Tatoeba · #855230603
A megaphone isn't a megafauna.
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