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# cygnet

«cygnet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young swan** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cygnet, cygnets)

### meaning for a pupil

A cygnet is a young swan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons and stories like «The Ugly Duckling», where the grey, clumsy bird turns out to be a cygnet that grows into a beautiful white swan. Cygnets are grey or brown and fluffy; they often ride on their parents' backs. Family words: cob (male swan), pen (female swan).

### examples

- Five grey cygnets swam behind their mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x1)
- The ugly duckling was really a cygnet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x2)
- Cygnets sometimes ride on the swan's back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x3)
- Don't go near the cygnets — the parents will protect them fiercely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x4)
- By winter the cygnets were almost as big as their parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x5)
- We watched the cygnets hatch on the river bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x6)
- Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cygnet/#x7)

### note

Countable. Pronounced «SIG-nit». Homophone: signet (a signet ring, with a seal on it). Swan family: cob (male), pen (female), cygnet (young).

### Trees and pragmatics

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