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# bird

«bird» in Mova's school dictionary: **an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs…** — 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 (bird, birds)

### meaning for a pupil

A bird is an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs, and most birds can fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted, often sitting on a fence or a tree; birds come (add) and fly away (take away); in science birds are a group of animals with feathers; phrases: «a flock of birds», «bird's nest», «early bird», «birds of a feather»

### examples

- 3 birds were sitting on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x1)
- 4 more birds came to join them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x2)
- 6 birds flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x3)
- How many more storks than birds are on the fence? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x4)
- A robin is a small bird with a red chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x5)
- Penguins are birds that cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x6)
- The bird built a nest in our tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x7)
- We put out seeds for the birds in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x8)
- Fine feathers don’t make fine birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bird/#x9)

### note

A thing counted. «came», «joined» add; «flew away» takes away. Trap: storks and birds may be counted separately in the question. Fact: every bird has feathers; bats fly but are not birds; penguins and ostriches are birds but do not fly.

### In the corpora

- [Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/12/)
- [In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wile E.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/3/)
- [Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/12/)
- [Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/6/)
- [When a perching bird bends its legs, tendons pull its toes tight round the branch, so it can sleep without falling off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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