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# aardwolf

noun (an aardwolf, aardwolves)

«aardwolf» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An aardwolf is a small striped animal of southern and eastern Africa, related to the hyena, that eats mainly termites. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used in science lessons about animals, food chains and adaptation; it licks up thousands of termites each night with its long sticky tongue.

### Examples

- The aardwolf eats termites, not big animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x1)
- An aardwolf can eat over 200,000 termites in one night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x2)
- The aardwolf looks like a small striped hyena. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x3)
- Aardwolves sleep in burrows during the day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x4)
- The aardwolf has very small teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x5)
- We read about the aardwolf in our book of African animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/#x6)

### Note

Pronounced ARD-wolf. Name means «earth wolf» in Afrikaans, but it is not a wolf. Plural «aardwolves» (like wolf, wolves). Not the same as the «aardvark», a different termite-eating animal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «aardwolf» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aardwolf/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«aardwolf» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/aardwolf.html) on Mova free.