macrofauna
noun
macrofauna is a noun meaning “Any large animal that is not quite large enough to be considered megafauna, but larger than microfauna. Some include larger species of insects and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-F-A-U-N-A, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macrofauna is macrofaunae or macrofaunas.
What does macrofauna mean?
noun
- 1
Any large animal that is not quite large enough to be considered megafauna, but larger than microfauna. Some include larger species of insects and annelids in this group.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of macrofauna
- macrofaunae plural
- macrofaunas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macrofauna?
Macrofauna appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does macrofauna come from?
From macro- + fauna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).