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# pika

«pika» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, round furry mammal with short ears and no tail…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a pika, pikas)

### meaning for a pupil

A pika is a small, round furry mammal with short ears and no tail, related to rabbits, that lives among rocks on cold mountains in Asia and North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pikas are an example of animals affected by climate change, because they need cool mountain air; they collect grass into «haypiles» for winter. Phrases: an American pika, a pika's haypile.

### examples

- A pika looks like a tiny hamster but is related to rabbits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x1)
- The pika squeaked from the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x2)
- Pikas gather grass to eat in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x3)
- We saw a pika on our trip to the Rocky Mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x4)
- Pikas cannot survive in very hot weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x5)
- The pika hid between two big stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pika/#x6)

### note

Countable: one pika, two pikas. Say PIE-kuh or PEE-kuh. Not the same as the cartoon character Pikachu, though that name may come from it. Not a rodent; it is a lagomorph, like rabbits.

### Trees and pragmatics

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