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# mustang

«mustang» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small, tough, half-wild horse of the western USA…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mustang, mustangs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small, tough, half-wild horse of the western USA, descended from horses brought by the Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#m1)

2) (with a capital M) The name of a famous American sports car, the Ford Mustang, and of a Second World War fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history and nature lessons about the American West and in cowboy stories. Mustangs are "feral" horses: their ancestors were tame, but they live wild. In everyday talk, "a Mustang" is often the car.

### examples

- Herds of wild mustangs still roam parts of Nevada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x1)
- The cowboy tamed a young mustang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x2)
- Mustangs came from horses the Spanish brought to America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x3)
- My uncle drives a red Mustang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x4)
- The mustang galloped across the plains with its mane flying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x5)
- We read a story about a girl and a wild mustang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x6)
- The P-51 Mustang was a famous fighter plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x7)

### note

Countable. Lower case for the horse, capital M for the car and plane. From a Spanish word for stray animals. "Feral" means once tame, now wild.

### Trees and pragmatics

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