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# aardwolf

«aardwolf» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small striped animal of southern and eastern Africa…** — 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 (an aardwolf, aardwolves)

### meaning for a pupil

An aardwolf is a small striped animal of southern and eastern Africa, related to the hyena, that eats mainly termites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about animals, food chains and adaptation; it licks up thousands of termites each night with its long sticky tongue.

### examples

- The aardwolf eats termites, not big animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x1)
- An aardwolf can eat over 200,000 termites in one night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x2)
- The aardwolf looks like a small striped hyena. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x3)
- Aardwolves sleep in burrows during the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x4)
- The aardwolf has very small teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x5)
- We read about the aardwolf in our book of African animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x6)

### note

Pronounced ARD-wolf. Name means «earth wolf» in Afrikaans, but it is not a wolf. Plural «aardwolves» (like wolf, wolves). Not the same as the «aardvark», a different termite-eating animal.

### In the corpora

- [Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aardwolf» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.