Meanings
- not comparableHaving (a relatively large amount of) intestinal fauna.
Since no resistant forms or cysts of rumen protozoa have been detected in feed, water or faeces, direct contact with a faunated animal appears to be the only route for transmission of these rumen organisms.
1997, P. N. Hobson, The Rumen Microbial Ecosystem, page 198
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