giraffes
- 1Plural of giraffe.
A small herd of giraffes drifted past the watering hole at dusk.
Researchers tracked how the giraffes shared feeding territory during the dry season.
Note
An ordinary -s plural that covers every meaning the singular has. Most often it counts the long-necked animals of the African savannah, and it takes plural agreement in the usual way (the giraffes were feeding). It also counts giraffe unicycles, and in uncommon online use it counts very tall people. Cockney slang uses giraffe for a laugh, a sense that rhymes rather than describes.
giraffes is a form of giraffe
giraffe, noun: A long-necked, long-legged African ruminant of the genus Giraffa, the tallest living animal, with spotted yellowish fur and short skin-covered horns. Full entry
- Forms
- giraffe also pluralgiraffes plural
- Spelling
- giraffe → giraffes: add -s
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