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# foal

«foal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a baby horse, donkey or zebra** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a foal, foals); verb (foal, foals, foaled, foaling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A foal is a baby horse, donkey or zebra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#m1)

2) When a mare foals, she gives birth to a foal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on animals and their young, a foal can stand and walk within hours of birth; on farms and in stories foals frolic in fields. Phrases: «a newborn foal», «the mare and her foal», «in foal» (pregnant).

### examples

- The foal stood up on wobbly legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x1)
- The mare and her foal grazed in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x2)
- A foal can walk soon after it is born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x3)
- The zebra foal stayed close to its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x4)
- The mare foaled during the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x5)
- The foal had long, thin legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x6)
- A young male foal is a colt, and a young female is a filly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x7)
- ‘Dost thou see anything now?’ said the Foal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x8)

### note

Countable. Pronounced to rhyme with «goal». Related: mare (mother), stallion (father), colt (young male), filly (young female). Do not confuse with «fowl» (birds) or «foul».

### In the corpora

- [In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/4/)
- [A newborn foal can stand and walk within a few hours of birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/10/)
- [A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/11/)
- [(32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1015/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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