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# panda

«panda» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large black-and-white bear from the mountain forests of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a panda, pandas; giant panda, red panda)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A panda (giant panda) is a large black-and-white bear from the mountain forests of China that eats almost only bamboo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#m1)

2) A red panda is a smaller, reddish-brown, furry animal with a long ringed tail; it also eats bamboo but is not a close relative of the giant panda. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#m2)

3) (UK, old-fashioned) A «panda car» was a small police car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons pandas come up in habitats, food chains, adaptations (a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip bamboo) and conservation: there are not many wild pandas, and protecting their bamboo forests helped their numbers grow. In everyday life pandas are a symbol of wildlife protection (the WWF logo) and of China, and are favourite soft toys and zoo animals.

### examples

- The panda munched bamboo for most of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x1)
- Giant pandas live in the mountains of China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x2)
- A baby panda is tiny and pink when it is born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x3)
- The red panda curled its bushy tail around itself to keep warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x4)
- Our class adopted a panda through a wildlife charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x5)
- Pandas have a special wrist bone that helps them hold bamboo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x6)
- There were huge crowds at the zoo to see the new panda cub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x7)
- The panda is the symbol of a famous nature charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panda/#x8)

### note

Plural «pandas». A baby is a «cub». Myth: pandas are not lazy — bamboo has little energy in it, so they rest a lot to save energy. The giant panda is a real bear; the red panda is not a bear and is in a family of its own. Pandas are black and white, not black and grey.

### In the corpora

- [Bamboo flowers and dies all at once every few decades, so pandas need several kinds of bamboo nearby.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/8/)
- [Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/13/)
- [Bamboo has little goodness, so pandas must eat a lot and rest to save energy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/5/)
- [Young pandas really tumble and roll, and pandas are good climbers that can rest high in tree branches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/8/)
- ["xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people say māoxióng.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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