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.
- (slang) Members of a college fraternity (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
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, 2011 April 28 (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, 2011 April 28 (last accessed)
- “Glossary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Pacific Streamkeepers Federation, 2011 April 28 (last accessed)
- “Wetlands Discovery Program Dictionary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], Santa Clara Valley Audubon society, 2011 April 28 (last accessed), archived from the original on 26 November 2007