tenrec

«tenrec» in Mova's school dictionary: A small mammal from Madagascar that often looks like a… — 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 tenrec, tenrecs)

meaning for a pupil

A small mammal from Madagascar that often looks like a hedgehog or a shrew; some kinds have spines. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons tenrecs are an example of convergent evolution: they look like hedgehogs but are not closely related; they evolved spines separately on the island of Madagascar. Some tenrecs rattle their quills to talk to each other, and some have many babies at once. They come up in lessons on islands, adaptation and unusual animals.

examples

• The tenrec looks like a tiny hedgehog. tree →
• Tenrecs live only in Madagascar and a little of Africa. tree →
• The streaked tenrec rattles its spines to talk. tree →
• A tenrec is not a hedgehog, even though it looks like one. tree →
• Some tenrecs swim in streams like little otters. tree →
• The zoo has a lowland tenrec in the night house. tree →

note

Countable: a tenrec, tenrecs. Pronounced TEN-rek. Not a hedgehog or porcupine; it belongs to a group of African mammals. Not to be mixed up with "tenner" (UK slang for ten pounds).

In the corpora

• Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.
• Some shrews and tenrecs use simple echoes from squeaks to explore tunnels and thick grass.

Trees and pragmatics

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