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FOAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("foal" is a kind of...):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foal"):

filly (a young female horse under the age of four)

colt (a young male horse under the age of four)

Holonyms ("foal" is a member of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Derivation:

foal (give birth to a foal)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give birth to a foal

Example:

the mare foaled

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "foal" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

foal (a young horse)

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