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# bushbaby

«bushbaby» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small African animal with huge round eyes, big ears and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bushbaby, bushbabies)

### meaning for a pupil

A small African animal with huge round eyes, big ears and a long tail that lives in trees and comes out at night. Also called a galago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animals and habitats, the bushbaby is a primate (a relative of monkeys and lemurs) that is nocturnal: its big eyes help it see in the dark, and it leaps from branch to branch eating insects and gum. Its name comes from its cry, which sounds like a crying baby.

### examples

- The bushbaby leapt from tree to tree in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x1)
- A bushbaby has huge eyes for seeing at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x2)
- We heard a bushbaby crying in the African night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x3)
- Bushbabies eat insects and tree gum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x4)
- The zoo's nocturnal house has bushbabies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x5)
- A bushbaby can jump much further than its own body length. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x6)

### note

Countable: a bushbaby, bushbabies (y → ies); also «bush baby». It is a nocturnal primate, not a baby of anything. Its other name is galago. It should not be kept as a pet.

### Trees and pragmatics

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