Words that rhyme with avifauna

• corner 0
  n 1: a place off to the side of an area; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean" 2: the point where two lines meet or intersect; "the corners of a rectangle" 3: an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room" [syn: corner, nook] 4: the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" [syn: corner, street corner, turning point] 5: the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; "the corners of a cube" 6: a small concavity [syn: recess, recession, niche, corner] 7: a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; "a corner on the silver market" 8: a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner" [syn: corner, box] 9: a projecting part where two sides or edges meet; "he knocked off the corners" 10: a remote area; "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery" 11: (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone [syn: corner, quoin] v 1: gain control over; "corner the gold market" 2: force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape [syn: corner, tree] 3: turn a corner; "the car corners"
• fauna 0
  n 1: all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" [syn: fauna, zoology] [ant: botany, flora, vegetation] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]
• fawner 0
  n 1: someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect [syn: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler]
• iguana 0
  n 1: large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America [syn: common iguana, iguana, Iguana iguana]
• liana 0
  n 1: a woody climbing usually tropical plant
• marijuana 0
  n 1: a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared [syn: marijuana, marihuana, ganja, Cannabis sativa] 2: the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect [syn: cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja]
• mourner 0
  n 1: a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) [syn: mourner, griever, sorrower, lamenter]
• nirvana 0
  n 1: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness [syn: nirvana, enlightenment] 2: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la]
• sauna 0
  n 1: a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks [syn: sauna, sweat room]
• scorner 0
  n 1: a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression [syn: sneerer, scorner]
• yawner 0
  n 1: a person who yawns
• spawner 0
  n 1: a female fish at spawning time
• sana 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau [syn: Sana, Sanaa, Sana'a]
• donna 0
  n 1: an Italian woman of rank
• ana 0
  n 1: mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu 2: a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
• botswana 0
  n 1: a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s [syn: Botswana, Republic of Botswana]
• guiana 0
  n 1: a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam
• guyana 0
  n 1: a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 [syn: Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana, British Guiana]
• madonna 0
  n 1: the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics [syn: Mary, Virgin Mary, The Virgin, Blessed Virgin, Madonna] 2: United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958) [syn: Madonna, Madonna Louise Ciccone]
• tijuana 0
  n 1: a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights
• mahayana 0
  n 1: a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation; China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; Mongolia 2: one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and Japan [syn: Mahayana, Mahayana Buddhism]
• bwana 0
• briana 0
• dominicana 0
• dwana 0
• gonna 0
• nona 0
• wanna 0
• caronna 0
• didonna 0
• digiovanna 0
• lorna 0
• morna 0

See also avifauna definition