aardwolf

«aardwolf» in Mova's school dictionary: a small striped animal of southern and eastern Africa… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an aardwolf, aardwolves)

meaning for a pupil

An aardwolf is a small striped animal of southern and eastern Africa, related to the hyena, that eats mainly termites. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about animals, food chains and adaptation; it licks up thousands of termites each night with its long sticky tongue.

examples

• The aardwolf eats termites, not big animals. tree →
• An aardwolf can eat over 200,000 termites in one night. tree →
• The aardwolf looks like a small striped hyena. tree →
• Aardwolves sleep in burrows during the day. tree →
• The aardwolf has very small teeth. tree →
• We read about the aardwolf in our book of African animals. tree →

note

Pronounced ARD-wolf. Name means «earth wolf» in Afrikaans, but it is not a wolf. Plural «aardwolves» (like wolf, wolves). Not the same as the «aardvark», a different termite-eating animal.

In the corpora

• Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.

Trees and pragmatics

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