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# zebra

«zebra» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild African animal like a horse with black and white…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (zebra, zebras)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A zebra is a wild African animal like a horse with black and white stripes. A zebra has 4 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#m1)

2) A zebra crossing (UK) is a place on a road with black and white stripes where people can cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

animals counted; legs (4 each); in science: zebras eat grass, live in herds on the African plains, and each zebra has its own stripe pattern; lions hunt them; in safety: cross the road at a zebra crossing, look both ways and wait for cars to stop

### examples

- The zoo has 6 zebras. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x1)
- How many legs do 6 zebras have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x2)
- 3 zebras and 2 lions drink water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x3)
- Each zebra eats 8 kg of grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x4)
- No two zebras have the same stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x5)
- A herd of zebras ran across the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x6)
- Cross the road at the zebra crossing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x7)
- Zebras live in Africa and eat grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zebra/#x8)

### note

Hidden fact: a zebra has 4 legs (6 zebras → 24 legs). Plural: zebras. Pronounced «ZEB-ra» (UK) or «ZEE-bra» (US). A zebra crossing is called a crosswalk in the USA.

### In the corpora

- [Every zebra has its own stripe pattern, and the best evidence says the stripes help keep biting flies from landing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/11/)
- [Zebras have black skin, so they are usually described as black with white stripes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/12/)
- [Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/13/)
- [Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/7/)
- [Predators and prey sometimes drink near each other, and zebras watch lions closely but run only if the lions come towards them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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