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# giraffe

«giraffe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very tall African animal with a very long neck, long…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a giraffe, giraffes or giraffe)

### meaning for a pupil

A giraffe is a very tall African animal with a very long neck, long legs and a coat with brown patches. It is the tallest animal on land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on adaptation the giraffe's long neck helps it reach leaves high in trees; it has a long dark tongue. In stories and zoos it is a favourite animal. Phrases: «a tall giraffe», «a baby giraffe (a calf)», «a herd/tower of giraffes».

### examples

- The giraffe ate leaves from the top of the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x1)
- A giraffe is the tallest animal on land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x2)
- Giraffes have very long, dark tongues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x3)
- Each giraffe has its own pattern of patches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x4)
- A baby giraffe is called a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x5)
- Giraffes sleep for only a short time each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x6)
- A giraffe has seven bones in its neck, just like we do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x7)
- The things that were missed were nothing much at first--a few little elephants, a hippopotamus or two, and some giraffes, and things like that. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giraffe/#x8)

### note

Spelling: one «r», double «f»: g-i-r-a-f-f-e. Pronounced «juh-RAF». A group is a «tower» or «herd». Surprising fact: its neck has the same number of bones as a human's: seven.

### In the corpora

- [A giraffe's dark tongue is about 45 to 50 centimetres long and pulls leaves past the thorns of acacia trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/15/)
- [The male giraffe weevil has a neck several times longer than its body, and it is found only in Madagascar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/8/)
- [Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are each very long, and almost all mammals have seven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/9/)
- [Picture an animal so tall that a giraffe could almost walk under its belly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/0/)
- [The true story already has a giraffe from Africa that the emperor's court mistook for a lucky magical beast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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