parrotfish

«parrotfish» in Mova's school dictionary: a brightly coloured fish of coral reefs with teeth joined… — 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 parrotfish, parrotfish or parrotfishes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A parrotfish is a brightly coloured fish of coral reefs with teeth joined into a beak like a parrot's. tree →

2) It scrapes and bites coral to eat the algae on it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, parrotfish keep coral reefs healthy by eating algae. They grind coral and poo out fine white sand, so a lot of beach sand on tropical islands comes from them. Some sleep in a bubble of mucus.

examples

• The parrotfish crunched on the coral. tree →
• Parrotfish make white sand on tropical beaches. tree →
• We saw a blue and green parrotfish when snorkelling. tree →
• A parrotfish sleeps in a slimy bubble. tree →
• Its mouth looks like a parrot's beak. tree →
• Parrotfish help keep the reef clean. tree →

note

Plural usually «parrotfish». It is a fish, not a bird.

In the corpora

• Fish have no eyelids, but many rest by slowing down and floating still; some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime.

Trees and pragmatics

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