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# wahoo

«wahoo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a North American tree whose inner bark was used for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (wahoos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (rare) A wahoo is a North American tree whose inner bark was used for weaving and making rope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wahoo/#m1)

2) (old use, in Uncle Remus tales) "Wahoo!" is a loud shout or call. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wahoo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the bark of a tree used in old tales, and a loud call shouted by a character

### examples

- The old man wove baskets from wahoo bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wahoo/#x1)
- Strips of wahoo bark lay on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wahoo/#x2)
- "Wahoo!" the boy shouted across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wahoo/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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