mudskipper

«mudskipper» in Mova's school dictionary: A small fish that lives on muddy shores and in mangrove… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mudskipper, mudskippers)

meaning for a pupil

A small fish that lives on muddy shores and in mangrove swamps and can come out of the water, skipping and crawling on the mud with its strong front fins. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons the mudskipper is a famous example of an animal between water and land: it breathes partly through its skin and keeps water in its gill chambers. It helps pupils think about adaptation and how fish might once have moved onto land. It lives in warm places such as Africa, Asia and northern Australia.

examples

• The mudskipper hopped across the mud at low tide. tree →
• A mudskipper can stay out of water for a long time. tree →
• Mudskippers have eyes on top of their heads, like little periscopes. tree →
• We watched a nature show about mudskippers in the mangroves. tree →
• The male mudskipper jumps high to impress a female. tree →
• Is a mudskipper a fish or a frog? It is a fish! tree →

note

Countable: a mudskipper, mudskippers. One word. It is a real fish, not an amphibian, even though it spends much time on land. Myth: it does not have lungs; it keeps damp to breathe.

In the corpora

• Herons, mudskippers and other animals with backbones each have just one heart.
• Mudskippers are fish that spend lots of time out of the water, on mud.

Trees and pragmatics

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