bearded
part of speech
adjective (bearded)
meaning for a pupil
1) Bearded means having a beard, hair growing on the chin and cheeks. tree →
2) In animals and plants, bearded describes tufts of hair or bristles, like a bearded dragon or bearded wheat. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories and descriptions, «a bearded man» helps the reader picture a character, like a bearded wizard or pirate. In science and nature, the bearded dragon is a lizard from Australia that is a popular pet, and the bearded vulture is a large bird. In safety lessons about describing people, children learn to notice details like «bearded» or «tall».
examples
- A tall bearded man opened the door. tree →
- The wizard was old and bearded. tree →
- My uncle is bearded and wears glasses. tree →
- The bearded dragon is a lizard from Australia. tree →
- The bearded pirate shouted, «Land ahoy!» tree →
- Bearded vultures live in the mountains. tree →
- Describe the bearded man to the police officer. tree →
- The bearded farmer waved from his tractor. tree →
- Last came the white-bearded man, but he fared no better than the rest. tree →
note
Adjective from «beard» + -ed. No comparative form is normally used. Do not confuse «beard» (hair on the face) with «bird» or «bared» (showed, as in «bared its teeth»).
In the corpora
- The bearded vulture eats mostly bones and drops big ones onto rocks from high up to crack them.
- Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones.
- A boy in Arizona wants a bearded dragon for his birthday.
- But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bearded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.