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# bushbaby

noun (a bushbaby, bushbabies)

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

## Everyday

A small African animal with huge round eyes, big ears and a long tail that lives in trees and comes out at night. Also called a galago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about animals and habitats, the bushbaby is a primate (a relative of monkeys and lemurs) that is nocturnal: its big eyes help it see in the dark, and it leaps from branch to branch eating insects and gum. Its name comes from its cry, which sounds like a crying baby.

### Examples

- The bushbaby leapt from tree to tree in the dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x1)
- A bushbaby has huge eyes for seeing at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x2)
- We heard a bushbaby crying in the African night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x3)
- Bushbabies eat insects and tree gum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x4)
- The zoo's nocturnal house has bushbabies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x5)
- A bushbaby can jump much further than its own body length. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushbaby/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a bushbaby, bushbabies (y → ies); also «bush baby». It is a nocturnal primate, not a baby of anything. Its other name is galago. It should not be kept as a pet.

## On Mova

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