hartebeest

«hartebeest» in Mova's school dictionary: A large African antelope with a long face, a sloping back… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a hartebeest; plural hartebeest or hartebeests)

meaning for a pupil

A large African antelope with a long face, a sloping back and curved horns, living on grassy plains. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on African animals and the savanna food chain: hartebeest eat grass and are hunted by lions, leopards and hyenas. In Kipling's Just So Stories («How the Leopard Got His Spots») the Giraffe, the Zebra and the Eland live on the High Veldt with the hartebeest, and the Leopard hunts them.

examples

• The hartebeest grazed on the dry plain. tree →
• A lion crept towards a herd of hartebeest. tree →
• Hartebeest have long faces and curved horns. tree →
• In the Just So Story, the Leopard hunted on the High Veldt. tree →
• Hartebeest can run very fast to escape. tree →
• We saw a hartebeest at the safari park. tree →

note

Pronounced HAR-tuh-beest. From Afrikaans «hartbees», old Dutch for «deer beast». Plural is often the same: two hartebeest.

Trees and pragmatics

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