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# unsheared

«unsheared» in Mova's school dictionary: **not sheared: an unsheared sheep still has all its wool…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unsheared)

### meaning for a pupil

Unsheared means not sheared: an unsheared sheep still has all its wool because it has not been clipped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used on farms and in stories about sheep and shearing; in science and geography lessons about wool. In maths word problems, sheep may be sheared or unsheared: unsheared = total − sheared. Related: shear (to cut wool off), shearer, shorn.

### examples

- Twenty sheep were sheared, but ten are still unsheared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x1)
- The unsheared sheep looked fat and fluffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x2)
- An unsheared sheep can get too hot in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x3)
- The farmer counted the unsheared sheep in the pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x4)
- There are 60 sheep; 45 are sheared, so 15 are unsheared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x5)

### note

«Un-» + «sheared». Past of «shear» is «sheared», and the adjective «shorn» also means cut. Homophone trap: «sheer» (very steep, or complete) sounds like «shear». In maths: unsheared = total − sheared (60 − 45 = 15).

### Trees and pragmatics

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