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# lory

«lory» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small, brightly coloured parrot from Australia, New…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lory, lories)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small, brightly coloured parrot from Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands, with a brush-tipped tongue for eating nectar and pollen from flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#m1)

2) In Alice in Wonderland, the Lory is a bird in the pool of tears who argues with Alice and says «I am older than you, and must know better». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Lories and lorikeets (their smaller cousins) are real birds; rainbow lorikeets are common in Australian gardens. In Alice, the Lory may be a joke about Alice's sister Lorina; it gets cross and sulky after Alice will not believe it, showing a grown-up who thinks age alone makes you right.

### examples

- A lory has a brush-like tongue for licking nectar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x1)
- The Lory sulked and said it was older than Alice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x2)
- We saw bright red and green lories at the bird park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x3)
- Rainbow lorikeets are a kind of lory found in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x4)
- The Lory, the Duck and the Dodo all ran in the Caucus-race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x5)
- The lory drank sweet juice from the flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x6)
- Alice would not let the Lory win the argument just because it was older. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lory/#x7)

### note

Plural lories (y — ies). Do not confuse with lorry (a truck in the UK) or lorikeet (a smaller kind).

### In the corpora

- [The Lory says "Ugh!", then pretends it did not speak: "Not I!"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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