mara

«mara» in Mova's school dictionary: a South American animal that looks like a small deer or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a mara, maras)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mara is a South American animal that looks like a small deer or long-legged hare but is a rodent, a relative of the guinea pig. tree →

2) (a name) The Mara is a river and area in Kenya and Tanzania; the Masai Mara is a famous wildlife reserve. tree →

3) (a name) Mara is also a girl's name. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in science lessons about animals of Patagonia and in zoos; in geography and nature films about the great migration in the Masai Mara.

examples

• The mara hops like a rabbit and runs like a deer. tree →
• Maras live in Argentina. tree →
• Maras are big rodents. tree →
• Wildebeest cross the Mara River every year. tree →
• We saw maras at the zoo. tree →
• Mara is my best friend's name. tree →

note

Plural: maras. Also called the Patagonian hare, but it is not a hare. As a name, it takes a capital M.

Trees and pragmatics

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