English Online Dictionary. What means wildlife? What does wildlife mean?
English
Alternative forms
- wild life (dated)
Etymology
From wild + life.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/
- Rhymes: -aɪldlaɪf
Noun
wildlife (uncountable)
- (often attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.
- Living undomesticated organisms of all kinds.
Usage notes
- Wildlife may be used to include certain classes of life, but not others. Often excluded are bacteria and other unicellular life or all forms of life not visible to the unaided human eye or apparently non-motile forms, such as plants and fungi.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- flora
- fauna
Further reading
- “wildlife”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Definitions and Acronyms”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], Department of Ecology State of Washington, 28 April 2011 (last accessed), archived from the original on 26 April 2011
- “Regulation definitions”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, 28 April 2011 (last accessed)
- “Glossary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Pacific Streamkeepers Federation, 28 April 2011 (last accessed)
- “Wetlands Discovery Program Dictionary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], Santa Clara Valley Audubon society, 28 April 2011 (last accessed), archived from the original on 26 November 2007