wildlife

See also: wild life

English

Alternative forms

• wild life (dated)

Etymology

From wild +‎ life.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪldlaɪf

Noun

wildlife (uncountable)

1. (often attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

   This town offers wildlife tours where you can go and watch the bears, deer, wild rabbits and other creatures in their natural habitats.

2. Living undomesticated organisms of all kinds.
3. (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

• wildlife bridge
• wildlife carer
• wildlife corridor
• wildlife crossing
• wildlife park
• wildlife refuge
• wildlife reserve
• wildlife sanctuary

 

Translations

animals and plants in their natural environment

• Arabic: اَلْحَيَاة اَلْبَرِّيَّة f (al-ḥayāh al-barriyya)
• Assamese: বনৰীয়া জীৱ-জন্তু (bonoria ziw-zontu)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܝܘܼܬ ܒܲܪܝܼܵܐ f (ḵayut barīyā)
• Bulgarian: дива природа f (diva priroda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野生生物 (yěshēng shēngwù)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: wildleven n, wildlife (nl), wilde planten en dieren, levende natuur
• Esperanto: faŭno
• Finnish: villieläimet (fi) pl (animals)
• French: nature (fr) f, environnement (fr) f, faune (fr) f, flore (fr) f
• German: Tierwelt (de) f, Fauna (de) f
• Hungarian: vadvilág (hu)
• Italian: fauna (it) f, fauna selvatica f
• Japanese: 野生動物 (やせいどうぶつ, yasei dōbutsu)
• Portuguese: vida selvagem f, fauna (pt) f
• Russian: ди́кая приро́да f (díkaja priróda), жива́я приро́да f (živája priróda), живо́тный мир m (živótnyj mir), фа́уна (ru) f (fáuna)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiadh-bheatha f
• Spanish: vida silvestre f
• Swedish: vilt (sv) n, natur (sv) c, fauna (sv) c, flora (sv) c
• Tagalog: buhay-ilang
• Turkish: vahşi yaşam, vahşi hayat, vahşi doğa

animals (without plants)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野生動物／野生动物 (zh) (yěshēng dòngwù)

• Dutch: wilde dieren
• Finnish: villieläimet (fi) pl
• Navajo: naaldeehii
• Spanish: fauna (es) f

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