aardvark

«aardvark» in Mova's school dictionary: An African mammal with a long snout, long ears, a thick… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an aardvark, aardvarks)

meaning for a pupil

1) An African mammal with a long snout, long ears, a thick tail and strong claws, which digs into ant and termite nests at night and eats the insects with its long sticky tongue. tree →

2) It lives in burrows and comes out mostly at night. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of an animal adapted to its food: claws for digging, a long tongue for catching termites, good hearing and smell for night life. In dictionaries it is often one of the first words. Its name comes from Afrikaans and means «earth pig», though it is not a pig.

examples

• The aardvark dug into the termite mound with its claws. tree →
• An aardvark can eat thousands of ants in one night. tree →
• Aardvarks sleep in burrows during the day. tree →
• «Aardvark» is one of the first words in the dictionary. tree →
• The aardvark's long ears help it hear insects. tree →
• At the zoo we only saw the aardvark in the nocturnal house. tree →

note

Use «an aardvark» (starts with a vowel sound). Spelled with double a. It is not an anteater; anteaters live in South and Central America and are a different animal. Not a pig, despite the name.

In the corpora

• Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so their tusks face the opening.
• Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «aardvark» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.