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# ocelot

«ocelot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild cat about twice the size of a pet cat, with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an ocelot, ocelots)

### meaning for a pupil

An ocelot is a wild cat about twice the size of a pet cat, with spotted and striped fur, living in the forests of Central and South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science lessons about rainforest animals and endangered species. Ocelots hunt at night.

### examples

- The ocelot has beautiful spotted fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x1)
- Ocelots live in South American rainforests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x2)
- An ocelot hunts small animals at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x3)
- Ocelots are good at climbing and swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x4)
- People once hunted ocelots for their fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x5)
- The ocelot is about twice as big as a house cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ocelot/#x6)

### note

Say «an ocelot» (starts with a vowel). Plural: ocelots. Say «OSS-uh-lot». It is a wild animal, not a pet.

### Trees and pragmatics

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