nostril

«nostril» in Mova's school dictionary: One of the two openings at the end of your nose that air… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a nostril, nostrils)

meaning for a pupil

One of the two openings at the end of your nose that air goes in and out through. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body and senses: we breathe and smell through our nostrils; tiny hairs and mucus inside trap dust and germs. In animals: whales breathe through a blowhole, which is their nostril; horses flare their nostrils. Safety: never push small objects into your nostrils.

examples

• Air goes in through your nostrils. tree →
• Hairs in your nostrils catch dust. tree →
• The horse flared its nostrils. tree →
• Never put beads up your nostril. tree →
• A whale's blowhole is its nostril. tree →
• Breathe in slowly through your nostrils. tree →
• My left nostril is blocked because of my cold. tree →
• And now her nostrils are twitching. tree →

note

Countable: a nostril, nostrils (we each have two). Spelling: «nostril» ends in «-il», not «-al». Breathing through the nose warms and cleans the air better than breathing through the mouth.

In the corpora

• Seals can sleep floating upright with their noses up, hold their breath for many minutes and close their nostrils tightly when they dive.
• all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.
• Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
• Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!
• Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.

Trees and pragmatics

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