pup

«pup» in Mova's school dictionary: a young dog; a puppy — 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 pup, pups); verb (pup, pups, pupped, pupping — to give birth, for some animals)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pup is a young dog; a puppy. tree →

2) A pup is also the baby of some other animals, such as seals, otters, wolves, foxes, rats and bats. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science (life cycles and animal babies): seal pups are born on beaches or ice; wolf pups live in a den. In everyday life: «our new pup» means a puppy. Phrases: seal pup, wolf pup, a litter of pups.

examples

• Our new pup chewed my shoe. tree →
• The seal pup has white fluffy fur. tree →
• The mother wolf fed her pups in the den. tree →
• A litter of six pups was born last night. tree →
• Leave a seal pup alone on the beach — its mother is nearby. tree →
• Otter pups learn to swim from their mothers. tree →

note

Countable: a pup, pups. A shorter form of «puppy». Baby animal names differ: kitten (cat), calf (cow, whale), cub (bear, lion, fox), pup (dog, seal). Safety: do not touch wild baby animals; the mother may be close.

In the corpora

• Some sharks and rays lay eggs in leathery cases called mermaid's purses, while other sharks give birth to live pups.
• Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.

Trees and pragmatics

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