doe

«doe» in Mova's school dictionary: a female deer — 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 (doe, does)

meaning for a pupil

1) A doe is a female deer. tree →

2) Females of rabbits, hares, goats and kangaroos are also called does. tree →

3) The male deer is a buck or stag, and the baby is a fawn. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: animals counted, often with fawns or bucks (all deer = does + bucks + fawns); science: animal families, male and female names; stories: a doe in the forest; songs: «Doe, a deer, a female deer»

examples

• There are 5 does and 3 bucks in the field. tree →
• Each doe has 2 fawns. tree →
• How many deer in all? tree →
• The doe ran away. tree →
• A doe and her fawn drank from the stream. tree →
• The rabbit doe made a nest. tree →
• We saw three does at the edge of the wood. tree →
• When he returned, the white doe was gone. tree →

note

Thing counted. Trap: the plural «does» looks like the verb «does» but is said «doze». Homophone: «dough» (for bread).

In the corpora

• A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.

Trees and pragmatics

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