megafauna
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
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megafauna is aPortuguesenoun. It means: designação paleontológica para o conjunto de animais, mormente mamíferos mas também répteis, aves e peixes, que atingiram grandes dimensões corporais, especialmente no período pleistoceno, grande p... Pronounced /me.ɡaˈfaw.nɐ/ [me.ɡaˈfaʊ̯.nɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | megafauna |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /me.ɡaˈfaw.nɐ/ [me.ɡaˈfaʊ̯.nɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for megafauna is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /me.ɡaˈfaw.nɐ/ [me.ɡaˈfaʊ̯.nɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for megafauna in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is megafauna, spelled M-E-G-A-F-A-U-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designação paleontológica para o conjunto de animais, mormente mamíferos mas também répteis, aves e peixes, que atingiram grandes dimensões corporais, especialmente no período pleistoceno, grande parte deles extintos no final da última glaciação há cerca de dez mil anos, o que coincidiu com a chegada dos seres humanos modernos em seus habitats
- 2designação comum aos grandes animais (como por exemplo grandes mamíferos africanos e asiáticos, como elefantes, rinocerontes, girafas, tigres, etc., mamíferos marinhos ou répteis como o dragão-de-comodo) que sobreviveram até o presente
- 3conjunto dos animais que têm maior abundância numa comunidade
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