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# chamois

«chamois» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small wild animal like a goat, with short horns, that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural chamois)

### meaning for a pupil

A chamois is a small wild animal like a goat, with short horns, that lives high in mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in mountain stories, a hunter tracks and catches chamois on steep slopes

### examples

- "Many a chamois have I crushed." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x1)
- He saw two chamois high up the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x2)
- His uncle was a chamois hunter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamois/#x3)

### note

in a count the word stays the same: 2 chamois, 5 chamois

### Trees and pragmatics

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