jackal

«jackal» in Mova's school dictionary: a wild animal like a small, thin dog that lives in Africa… — 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 jackal, jackals)

meaning for a pupil

1) A jackal is a wild animal like a small, thin dog that lives in Africa and Asia and eats small animals and leftovers from other hunters. tree →

2) (informal) A jackal can mean a sneaky person who takes advantage of others' work or misfortune. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, jackals are hunters and scavengers that help clean up the savanna; they often live in pairs for life. In history lessons on Ancient Egypt, the god Anubis has a jackal's head. In stories and fables, the jackal is often a sly trickster.

examples

• A jackal crept towards the leftover meat. tree →
• Jackals howl at night on the savanna. tree →
• Anubis, the Egyptian god, had a jackal's head. tree →
• The jackal is a cousin of the dog and the wolf. tree →
• In the fable, the clever jackal tricks the lion. tree →
• Jackals live in pairs and raise their pups together. tree →
• We heard jackals calling in the dark. tree →

note

Countable: jackals. Pronounced «JACK-ul». A jackal is not a hyena, though both scavenge; hyenas are a different family.

In the corpora

• And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
• But Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
• Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
• I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Trees and pragmatics

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