beagle

«beagle» in Mova's school dictionary: a small to medium hunting dog with long floppy ears… — 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 (a beagle, beagles)

meaning for a pupil

1) A beagle is a small to medium hunting dog with long floppy ears, short legs and a white, brown and black coat. tree →

2) HMS Beagle was the ship Charles Darwin sailed on to study nature (a name). tree →

sense in the lessons

Beagles have a great sense of smell; they work at airports sniffing luggage for food. In science, Darwin's voyage on the Beagle helped him think about evolution. Snoopy from Peanuts is a beagle.

examples

• Our beagle howls when the doorbell rings. tree →
• Snoopy is a beagle. tree →
• The beagle sniffed every bag at the airport. tree →
• Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle. tree →
• Beagles love to follow their noses. tree →
• A beagle needs lots of walks. tree →

note

Countable. Capital B for the ship's name.

In the corpora

• Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.
• Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils.

Trees and pragmatics

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