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# quagga

«quagga» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quagga was a kind of zebra from South Africa with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a quagga, quaggas)

### meaning for a pupil

The quagga was a kind of zebra from South Africa with stripes only on the front half of its body and a plain brown back; it became extinct more than a hundred years ago because of hunting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about extinction, the quagga is an example of an animal wiped out by people; the last one died in a zoo in Amsterdam. Scientists studied its DNA and found it was a type of plains zebra, and a project in South Africa is breeding zebras that look like quaggas again.

### examples

- The quagga was half zebra-striped and half brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x1)
- The last quagga died in a zoo long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x2)
- Hunters killed the quaggas for meat and skins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x3)
- The quagga is now extinct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x4)
- Scientists found the quagga was a kind of zebra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x5)
- Only one quagga was ever photographed alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x6)

### note

Countable: quaggas. Pronounced «KWAG-uh». It was real, not a mythical creature. «Extinct» means no living ones are left anywhere.

### In the corpora

- [DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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