antelope

«antelope» in Mova's school dictionary: A fast, graceful wild animal like a deer, with horns… — 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 antelope, antelopes or antelope)

meaning for a pupil

A fast, graceful wild animal like a deer, with horns, that lives mainly in Africa and Asia, such as the gazelle, impala and gnu. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in science and geography about the African savannah, food chains and herds: lions and cheetahs hunt antelopes. Phrases: a herd of antelope, antelope species.

examples

• The antelope ran away from the lion. tree →
• A herd of antelope grazed on the grass. tree →
• Gazelles are a kind of antelope. tree →
• Antelopes have horns that do not fall off each year. tree →
• The cheetah chased an antelope across the plain. tree →
• In the food chain, grass is eaten by the antelope. tree →
• An antelope, that probably mistook the yellow radiance for sunrise, came bounding fleetly through the grove. tree →

note

Plural antelopes or antelope (both correct). Not a deer: antelopes keep their horns all their life, while deer shed antlers every year. The American "pronghorn antelope" is not a true antelope.

In the corpora

• Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.

Trees and pragmatics

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