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語源

From wild +‎ life.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/
• 韻: -aɪldlaɪf

名詞

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.

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

派生語

参考

• flora
• fauna

Further reading

• “wildlife”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Definitions and Acronyms”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 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)‎, Santa Clara Valley Audubon society, 28 April 2011 (last accessed), archived from the original on 26 November 2007