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# morocco

«morocco» in Mova's school dictionary: **a country in north-west Africa, across the sea from Spain…** — 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

proper noun (Morocco); noun (morocco — soft leather)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Morocco is a country in north-west Africa, across the sea from Spain (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#m1)

2) Morocco (small m) is a fine soft leather made from goatskin, used for book covers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, Morocco has the Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and cities like Marrakesh, Rabat and Casablanca; people speak Arabic, Berber (Amazigh) and French. Famous for markets (souks), mint tea and tagines.

### examples

- Morocco is in North Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x1)
- We drank mint tea in Morocco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x2)
- The Atlas Mountains are in Morocco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x3)
- The old book was bound in red morocco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x4)
- Morocco's capital is Rabat, not Casablanca. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x5)
- Morocco reached the World Cup semi-finals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x6)
- And from the General's apartment there arrived a hymn-book bound in morocco, sent by the little lady to whom George had given pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morocco/#x7)

### note

Capital M for the country. Adjective: Moroccan. Trap: the capital is Rabat.

### In the corpora

- [Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/)
- [In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/17/)
- [Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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