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# dingo

«dingo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild dog of Australia, usually sandy-yellow, which…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dingo, dingoes or dingos)

### meaning for a pupil

A dingo is a wild dog of Australia, usually sandy-yellow, which hunts alone or in packs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In Australian science and geography lessons, dingoes are a top predator; the long Dingo Fence was built to keep them away from sheep. They howl rather than bark. Campers are warned not to feed dingoes (e.g. on K'gari/Fraser Island).

### examples

- A dingo howled in the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x1)
- Don't feed the dingoes — it's dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x2)
- Dingoes hunt kangaroos and rabbits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x3)
- The dingo fence is one of the longest fences in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x4)
- A dingo looks like a sandy dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x5)
- We saw dingo tracks in the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingo/#x6)

### note

Plural: dingoes (or dingos). Not a pet dog; it is wild.

### Trees and pragmatics

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