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# pup

«pup» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young dog; a puppy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pup, pups); verb (pup, pups, pupped, pupping — to give birth, for some animals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pup is a young dog; a puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#m1)

2) A pup is also the baby of some other animals, such as seals, otters, wolves, foxes, rats and bats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science (life cycles and animal babies): seal pups are born on beaches or ice; wolf pups live in a den. In everyday life: «our new pup» means a puppy. Phrases: seal pup, wolf pup, a litter of pups.

### examples

- Our new pup chewed my shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x1)
- The seal pup has white fluffy fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x2)
- The mother wolf fed her pups in the den. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x3)
- A litter of six pups was born last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x4)
- Leave a seal pup alone on the beach — its mother is nearby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x5)
- Otter pups learn to swim from their mothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pup/#x6)

### note

Countable: a pup, pups. A shorter form of «puppy». Baby animal names differ: kitten (cat), calf (cow, whale), cub (bear, lion, fox), pup (dog, seal). Safety: do not touch wild baby animals; the mother may be close.

### In the corpora

- [Some sharks and rays lay eggs in leathery cases called mermaid's purses, while other sharks give birth to live pups.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/17/)
- [Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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