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# beagle

«beagle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small to medium hunting dog with long floppy ears…** — 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 beagle, beagles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beagle is a small to medium hunting dog with long floppy ears, short legs and a white, brown and black coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#m1)

2) HMS Beagle was the ship Charles Darwin sailed on to study nature (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Beagles have a great sense of smell; they work at airports sniffing luggage for food. In science, Darwin's voyage on the Beagle helped him think about evolution. Snoopy from Peanuts is a beagle.

### examples

- Our beagle howls when the doorbell rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x1)
- Snoopy is a beagle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x2)
- The beagle sniffed every bag at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x3)
- Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x4)
- Beagles love to follow their noses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x5)
- A beagle needs lots of walks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beagle/#x6)

### note

Countable. Capital B for the ship's name.

### In the corpora

- [Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/13/)
- [Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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