The totality of the animals naturally inhabiting a certain country or region, or which have lived during a given geological period.

The Cat-family.

Having become wild from a state of cultivation or domestication.

The totality of the plants growing naturally in a country, or during a given geological period.

Flowers imperfectly developed in some respects, and collected into a dense spike or head, as in the Grasses, the Dandelion, etc.

Of or belonging to the foetus, or embryo in course of development.