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# wombat

«wombat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sturdy, short-legged Australian marsupial with a broad…** — 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 wombat, wombats)

### meaning for a pupil

A wombat is a sturdy, short-legged Australian marsupial with a broad head and thick fur, which digs burrows and eats grass and roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the wombat is a marsupial: the mother carries her joey in a pouch that opens backwards, so no soil gets in when she digs. Wombats are famous for their cube-shaped droppings, which they use to mark territory. They are nocturnal and live in Australia, often in burrows. In road safety in Australia, drivers watch out for wombats at night. Phrases: «wombat burrow», «bare-nosed wombat», «hairy-nosed wombat».

### examples

- A wombat dug a burrow under the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x1)
- Wombats live in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x2)
- The wombat's pouch faces backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x3)
- Wombats do cube-shaped poo! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x4)
- We saw a wombat crossing the road at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x5)
- Baby wombats are called joeys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x6)
- Wombats eat grass, roots and bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wombat/#x7)

### note

Plural: wombats. Young: joey (like kangaroos and koalas). Trap: a koala is not a bear and a wombat is not a bear either; both are marsupials.

### In the corpora

- [A koala, wombat or other wild animal hurt on the road should be helped by wildlife rescue, not by children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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