"megafauna" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "megafaunal"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "charismatic megafauna"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mega",
        "3": "fauna"
      },
      "expansion": "mega- + fauna",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mega- + fauna.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "megafaunas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megafauna",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "megafauna"
      },
      "expansion": "megafauna (plural megafaunas or megafauna)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mega-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Galician translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group."
      ],
      "id": "en-megafauna-en-noun-5VoXbyyS",
      "links": [
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A treatise on such a group of large animals."
      ],
      "id": "en-megafauna-en-noun-Q7BQ~-0z"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "suureläimistö"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "mégafaune"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "megapauna",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "მეგაფაუნა"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "megapanída",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μεγαπανίδα"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafaună"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megafauna"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms prefixed with mega-",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "megafaunal"
    },
    {
      "word": "charismatic megafauna"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mega",
        "3": "fauna"
      },
      "expansion": "mega- + fauna",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mega- + fauna.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "megafaunas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megafauna",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "megafauna"
      },
      "expansion": "megafauna (plural megafaunas or megafauna)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A treatise on such a group of large animals."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "suureläimistö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "mégafaune"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "megapauna",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "word": "მეგაფაუნა"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "megapanída",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μεγαπανίδα"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafaună"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "large animals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "megafauna"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megafauna"
}