mate vs fauna
fauna vs matemate and fauna both are nouns.
mate is a verb but fauna is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mate | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| fauna | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
fauna is a hypernym of
mate; that is, fauna is a
word with a broader meaning than mate:
- mate: the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- fauna: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
| mate (noun) | fauna (noun) |
|---|---|
| a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
| an exact duplicate | all the animal life in a particular region or period |
| South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | |
| a person's partner in marriage | |
| the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | |
| the officer below the master on a commercial ship | |
| informal term for a friend of the same sex | |
| a fellow member of a team | |
| South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | |
| one of a pair |
| mate (verb) | fauna (verb) |
|---|---|
| place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | |
| engage in sexual intercourse | |
| bring two objects, ideas, or people together |
Words related to "mate"
- Australia
- Britain
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Great Britain
- Ilex paraguariensis
- Paraguay tea
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- animal
- animate being
- associate
- bang
- be intimate
- beast
- beat
- beat out
- bed
- better half
- beverage
- bigamist
- bonk
- brace
- breed
- brute
- bugger
- checkmate
- chess
- chess game
- chess move
- conceive
- conjoin
- consort
- copulate
- couple
- couplet
- cover
- creature
- crush
- deflower
- distich
- do it
- domestic partner
- drink
- drinkable
- duad
- duet
- duo
- duplicate
- duplication
- dyad
- eff
- fauna
- fellow
- first mate
- friend
- fuck
- get it on
- get laid
- have a go at it
- have intercourse
- have it away
- have it off
- have sex
- helpmate
- helpmeet
- holly
- honeymooner
- hubby
- hump
- husband
- jazz
- join
- know
- lie with
- love
- make love
- make out
- man and wife
- marriage
- married couple
- married man
- married person
- married woman
- match
- matey
- mating
- mismatch
- mismate
- monogamist
- monogynist
- mount
- newlywed
- nick
- officer
- pair
- partner
- polygamist
- potable
- relation
- relative
- ride
- roll in the hay
- ruin
- screw
- serve
- service
- shell
- ship's officer
- significant other
- singleton
- sleep together
- sleep with
- sodomise
- sodomize
- span
- spousal equivalent
- spouse
- spouse equivalent
- teammate
- tread
- trounce
- twain
- twin
- twosome
- vanquish
- wife
- yoke
Words related to "fauna"
- Animalia
- accumulation
- acrodont
- actinomycete
- adult
- aggregation
- albino
- all-devouring
- animal
- animal group
- animal kingdom
- animal tissue
- animate being
- assemblage
- avifauna
- beast
- being
- big
- biology
- biota
- biped
- body
- bone
- bone-covered
- brute
- captive
- caput
- chordate
- collection
- conceptus
- creature
- creepy-crawly
- crested
- critter
- crop
- darter
- debone
- diet
- domestic animal
- domesticate
- domesticated animal
- domesticise
- domesticize
- drench
- ectotherm
- embryo
- epizootic
- face
- feeder
- female
- fertilized egg
- fictional animal
- flesh-eating
- flora
- free-swimming
- full-grown
- fully grown
- game
- giant
- graze
- gregarious
- grown
- grownup
- half-blooded
- half-bred
- half-breed
- head
- herbivore
- hexapod
- hispid
- homeotherm
- homoiotherm
- homotherm
- humaneness
- insectivore
- insectivorous
- invertebrate
- kingdom Animalia
- larva
- male
- marine animal
- marine creature
- mate
- meat-eating
- metazoan
- micro-organism
- microorganism
- migrator
- molter
- moulter
- mutant
- nose
- offspring
- omnivore
- organic structure
- organism
- pasture
- peeper
- pest
- pet
- phytophagic
- phytophagous
- phytophilous
- plant-eating
- pleurodont
- poikilotherm
- predator
- predatory animal
- prey
- pureblood
- purebred
- quarry
- racer
- range animal
- reclaim
- registered
- ritual killing
- sacrifice
- scavenger
- schistosome dermatitis
- sea animal
- sea creature
- side
- sitter
- social
- spirit animal
- stander
- stayer
- stunt
- survivor
- swimmer's itch
- tame
- thoroughbred
- topknotted
- tracking
- trailing
- transmitter
- trap
- tufted
- unattached
- unregistered
- varment
- varmint
- vector
- wart
- work animal
- young
- zoology
- zoophagous
- zooplankton
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