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# quagga

noun (a quagga, quaggas)

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

## Everyday

The quagga was a kind of zebra from South Africa with stripes only on the front half of its body and a plain brown back; it became extinct more than a hundred years ago because of hunting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about extinction, the quagga is an example of an animal wiped out by people; the last one died in a zoo in Amsterdam. Scientists studied its DNA and found it was a type of plains zebra, and a project in South Africa is breeding zebras that look like quaggas again.

### Examples

- The quagga was half zebra-striped and half brown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x1)
- The last quagga died in a zoo long ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x2)
- Hunters killed the quaggas for meat and skins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x3)
- The quagga is now extinct. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x4)
- Scientists found the quagga was a kind of zebra. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x5)
- Only one quagga was ever photographed alive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quagga/#x6)

### Note

Countable: quaggas. Pronounced «KWAG-uh». It was real, not a mythical creature. «Extinct» means no living ones are left anywhere.

## On Mova

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