wishbone

«wishbone» in Mova's school dictionary: a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a wishbone, wishbones)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wishbone is a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a chicken, turkey or other bird. tree →

2) It is used in a game where two people pull it and the one who gets the bigger piece makes a wish. tree →

sense in the lessons

At Christmas or Thanksgiving dinners, children pull the turkey wishbone and make a wish. In science, the wishbone (furcula) helps birds fly. It is a custom and a game, not real magic.

examples

• We pulled the wishbone after Christmas dinner. tree →
• I got the bigger piece of the wishbone, so I made a wish. tree →
• Let the wishbone dry before you pull it. tree →
• The wishbone helps a bird's wings work. tree →
• My sister always wins the wishbone. tree →
• What did you wish for with the wishbone? tree →

note

Countable. Wishing on a wishbone is a fun tradition; it does not really make wishes come true.

In the corpora

• The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.
• Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.
• Birds and many dinosaurs share hollow bones, wishbones, three-toed feet and feathers.
• A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.

Trees and pragmatics

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