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# mara

noun (a mara, maras)

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

## Everyday

1. A mara is a South American animal that looks like a small deer or long-legged hare but is a rodent, a relative of the guinea pig. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#m1)
2. (a name) The Mara is a river and area in Kenya and Tanzania; the Masai Mara is a famous wildlife reserve. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#m2)
3. (a name) Mara is also a girl's name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#m3)

### In the lessons

Met in science lessons about animals of Patagonia and in zoos; in geography and nature films about the great migration in the Masai Mara.

### Examples

- The mara hops like a rabbit and runs like a deer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x1)
- Maras live in Argentina. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x2)
- Maras are big rodents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x3)
- Wildebeest cross the Mara River every year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x4)
- We saw maras at the zoo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x5)
- Mara is my best friend's name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mara/#x6)

### Note

Plural: maras. Also called the Patagonian hare, but it is not a hare. As a name, it takes a capital M.

## On Mova

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