bustard

«bustard» in Mova's school dictionary: a large, heavy bird with long legs that walks on… — 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 (a bustard, bustards)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bustard is a large, heavy bird with long legs that walks on grasslands and open plains; it can fly, but prefers to run. tree →

2) The great bustard is one of the heaviest flying birds in the world. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, bustards show birds that live on dry grasslands in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (the Australian bustard). In conservation lessons, the great bustard was wiped out in Britain and is being brought back on Salisbury Plain. Phrases: «great bustard», «Australian bustard».

examples

• The great bustard is one of the heaviest birds that can fly. tree →
• A bustard strutted across the dry grassland. tree →
• Scientists are bringing bustards back to England. tree →
• The Australian bustard can stand very still to hide. tree →
• The male bustard puffs out its feathers to show off. tree →
• We saw a bustard on our trip to the outback. tree →

note

Countable noun: one bustard, many bustards. Careful with spelling: it is «bustard», and it is a bird; do not mix it up with similar-sounding rude words.

In the corpora

• A great bustard has three toes on each foot and no back toe, because it walks on open ground and never perches.

Trees and pragmatics

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