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# sumatran

«sumatran» in Mova's school dictionary: **from or to do with Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia…** — 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

adjective (Sumatran); noun (a Sumatran, Sumatrans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sumatran means from or to do with Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia in South-East Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#m1)

2) A Sumatran is a person from Sumatra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#m2)

3) It is used in the names of rare animals that live there: the Sumatran tiger, the Sumatran orangutan, the Sumatran rhinoceros and the Sumatran elephant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, Sumatran animals are examples of critically endangered species whose rainforest home is being cut down, often for palm-oil farms. Pupils learn about protecting habitats and choosing products that do not destroy forests. Phrases: «Sumatran tiger», «Sumatran orangutan», «Sumatran rainforest».

### examples

- The Sumatran tiger is the smallest tiger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x1)
- Sumatran orangutans live high in the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x2)
- Only a few Sumatran rhinos are left in the wild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x3)
- The Sumatran rainforest is being cut down for farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x4)
- We adopted a Sumatran tiger at the zoo for our class project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x5)
- Sumatran coffee is sold all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumatran/#x6)

### note

Write with a capital S, because it comes from a place name (Sumatra). Pronounced soo-MAH-tran. «Critically endangered» means a species is at very high risk of dying out.

### In the corpora

- [Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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