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# mustang

noun (a mustang, mustangs)

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

## Everyday

1. A small, tough, half-wild horse of the western USA, descended from horses brought by the Spanish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#m1)
2. (with a capital M) The name of a famous American sports car, the Ford Mustang, and of a Second World War fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in history and nature lessons about the American West and in cowboy stories. Mustangs are "feral" horses: their ancestors were tame, but they live wild. In everyday talk, "a Mustang" is often the car.

### Examples

- Herds of wild mustangs still roam parts of Nevada. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x1)
- The cowboy tamed a young mustang. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x2)
- Mustangs came from horses the Spanish brought to America. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x3)
- My uncle drives a red Mustang. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x4)
- The mustang galloped across the plains with its mane flying. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x5)
- We read a story about a girl and a wild mustang. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x6)
- The P-51 Mustang was a famous fighter plane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mustang/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Lower case for the horse, capital M for the car and plane. From a Spanish word for stray animals. "Feral" means once tame, now wild.

## On Mova

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