hornbill

«hornbill» in Mova's school dictionary: a tropical bird from Africa and Asia with a very large… — 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 hornbill, hornbills)

meaning for a pupil

A hornbill is a tropical bird from Africa and Asia with a very large curved beak, often with a hard bump called a casque on top of it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about rainforests and adaptations, the hornbill eats fruit and spreads seeds, helping the forest grow. Its nesting habit is famous: the female seals herself inside a tree hole with mud, and the male feeds her through a narrow slit. In stories and films (Zazu in «The Lion King» is a hornbill) it is a talkative bird. Phrases: great hornbill, ground hornbill, rhinoceros hornbill.

examples

• The hornbill has a huge yellow beak. tree →
• A hornbill helps the forest by dropping seeds. tree →
• The great hornbill lives in the forests of India and Southeast Asia. tree →
• The female hornbill stays sealed in her nest while the chicks grow. tree →
• Zazu in «The Lion King» is a red-billed hornbill. tree →
• The hornbill's casque sits on top of its beak like a helmet. tree →
• We heard the loud whoosh of a hornbill's wings. tree →
• Some hornbills are endangered because forests are cut down. tree →

note

Countable: one hornbill, hornbills. A compound word: horn + bill (bill = beak). Do not confuse with the toucan of South and Central America, which also has a big colourful beak but is a different family; hornbills live in Africa and Asia.

In the corpora

• In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.

Trees and pragmatics

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