quagga

«quagga» in Mova's school dictionary: The quagga was a kind of zebra from South Africa with… — 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 quagga, quaggas)

meaning for a pupil

The quagga was a kind of zebra from South Africa with stripes only on the front half of its body and a plain brown back; it became extinct more than a hundred years ago because of hunting. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about extinction, the quagga is an example of an animal wiped out by people; the last one died in a zoo in Amsterdam. Scientists studied its DNA and found it was a type of plains zebra, and a project in South Africa is breeding zebras that look like quaggas again.

examples

• The quagga was half zebra-striped and half brown. tree →
• The last quagga died in a zoo long ago. tree →
• Hunters killed the quaggas for meat and skins. tree →
• The quagga is now extinct. tree →
• Scientists found the quagga was a kind of zebra. tree →
• Only one quagga was ever photographed alive. tree →

note

Countable: quaggas. Pronounced «KWAG-uh». It was real, not a mythical creature. «Extinct» means no living ones are left anywhere.

In the corpora

• DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again.

Trees and pragmatics

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