cockerel

«cockerel» in Mova's school dictionary: a young male chicken — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cockerel, cockerels)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cockerel is a young male chicken. tree →

2) In everyday speech it means any male chicken, a rooster. tree →

sense in the lessons

In farm stories, the cockerel crows «cock-a-doodle-doo» at dawn to wake everyone. In science, hens lay eggs; cockerels do not. In the UK «cockerel» is common; in the USA and Australia «rooster».

examples

• The cockerel crowed at sunrise. tree →
• Our cockerel has a red comb and a long tail. tree →
• Hens lay eggs, but cockerels don't. tree →
• The weathervane had a metal cockerel on top. tree →
• The cockerel chased the cat out of the yard. tree →
• Tottenham football club has a cockerel badge. tree →

note

Countable. US: rooster. Female: hen. Baby: chick. Cockerels crow at many times of the day, not only at dawn.

In the corpora

• Supermarket eggs never hatch because the hens live without a cockerel, and a hen lays about one egg a day.
• The first hot-air balloon passengers, in 1783, were a sheep, a duck and a cockerel.
• Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts.

Trees and pragmatics

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