foal

«foal» in Mova's school dictionary: a baby horse, donkey or zebra — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a foal, foals); verb (foal, foals, foaled, foaling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A foal is a baby horse, donkey or zebra. tree →

2) When a mare foals, she gives birth to a foal. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on animals and their young, a foal can stand and walk within hours of birth; on farms and in stories foals frolic in fields. Phrases: «a newborn foal», «the mare and her foal», «in foal» (pregnant).

examples

• The foal stood up on wobbly legs. tree →
• The mare and her foal grazed in the field. tree →
• A foal can walk soon after it is born. tree →
• The zebra foal stayed close to its mother. tree →
• The mare foaled during the night. tree →
• The foal had long, thin legs. tree →
• A young male foal is a colt, and a young female is a filly. tree →
• ‘Dost thou see anything now?’ said the Foal. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced to rhyme with «goal». Related: mare (mother), stallion (father), colt (young male), filly (young female). Do not confuse with «fowl» (birds) or «foul».

In the corpora

• In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.
• A newborn foal can stand and walk within a few hours of birth.
• A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger.
• (32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

Trees and pragmatics

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