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# moose

«moose» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large deer with long legs, a big nose, a flap of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (moose; plural moose)

### meaning for a pupil

A moose is a very large deer with long legs, a big nose, a flap of skin under its chin, and wide flat antlers on the male. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons moose live in forests and wetlands of Canada, Alaska and the northern USA, and also in northern Europe and Asia; they eat leaves, twigs and water plants and are good swimmers. In safety: moose can be dangerous — keep far away, and drivers watch for moose crossing roads. Phrases: moose antlers, bull moose, cow moose.

### examples

- A moose stood in the lake eating plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x1)
- The moose is the biggest kind of deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x2)
- We saw three moose in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x3)
- Only male moose grow antlers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x4)
- Watch out for moose on the road at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x5)
- A baby moose is called a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moose/#x6)

### note

Plural is the same: one moose, two moose (not «mooses» or «meese»). In British English the same animal in Europe is called an elk; in North America «elk» is a different deer. Male = bull, female = cow, baby = calf.

### In the corpora

- [Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft, and usually fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/24/)
- [Moose in Alaska and Canada are huge and can charge and kick, so they can be dangerous, especially mothers with calves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/19/)
- [Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is usually the same too (three fish).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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