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# saiga

«saiga» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of antelope that lives on the dry grassy plains of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a saiga, saigas; also saiga antelope)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A saiga is a kind of antelope that lives on the dry grassy plains of Central Asia, with a big, soft, drooping nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#m1)

2) Its strange nose works like a filter: it warms cold air in winter and keeps out dust in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons the saiga is an example of an animal adapted to harsh steppe weather and of an endangered species: many died from disease and hunting, and people work to protect them. In stories it can stand for wild, wide open land.

### examples

- A saiga has a nose that hangs over its mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x1)
- Saigas live on the steppes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x2)
- The saiga's nose filters dust from the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x3)
- Thousands of saigas run together across the plains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x4)
- Hunters once killed many saigas for their horns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x5)
- Scientists count the saigas every year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x6)
- The saiga is listed as an endangered animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x7)
- We saw a picture of a baby saiga in our nature book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saiga/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: one saiga, two saigas. Pronounced «SY-guh». Only the males have horns. It is a real animal, not a cartoon or a made-up creature.

### Trees and pragmatics

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