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# acacia

«acacia» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tree or shrub with small leaves, often thorns, and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an acacia, acacias)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tree or shrub with small leaves, often thorns, and yellow or white flowers, that grows in warm, dry places such as Africa and Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#m1)

2) In Australia many acacias are called wattle; golden wattle is the national flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Seen in science and geography lessons about savannahs and deserts: giraffes eat acacia leaves, and the flat-topped acacia is a picture of the African savannah. In Australia children learn about wattle. Phrases: acacia tree, acacia honey, acacia wood.

### examples

- Giraffes stretch their long necks to eat acacia leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x1)
- The acacia had sharp thorns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x2)
- In Australia, the golden wattle is a kind of acacia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x3)
- Bees make honey from acacia flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x4)
- We sat in the shade of an acacia on the savannah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x5)
- Acacia trees can live in very dry places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x6)
- The acacia-trees now overshadow every part of the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acacia/#x7)

### note

Pronounced a-KAY-sha (UK, US). Plural: acacias. In Australia and New Zealand the everyday name is wattle. Some trees called "acacia" in Europe are really false acacia (locust tree).

### In the corpora

- [A giraffe's dark tongue is about 45 to 50 centimetres long and pulls leaves past the thorns of acacia trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/15/)
- [and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.705/)
- [And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.713/)
- [And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.755/)
- [And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.766/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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