noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brood mare
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
grey
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He was definitely impressed by Karen's lovely grey mare , Wilma, who is a born show jumper.
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Uncle brought his own horse when he took over at Low Birk Hatt, an old grey mare called Madge.
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Well, she galloped the grey mare in, and the women stayed back.
old
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Uncle brought his own horse when he took over at Low Birk Hatt, an old grey mare called Madge.
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The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too.
■ NOUN
basalts
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The mare basalts are denser than the rocks which typify the highlands.
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But whereas the mare basalts are too dense to represent the lunar mantle, the highland rocks are not dense enough.
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This suggests that the mare basalts and the highland rocks have both been derived from mantle rocks of intermediate density.
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Mantle compositions that could yield both mare basalts and highland rocks are consistent with the constraints on the interior outlined earlier.
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However, it is not clear whether the ages of the mare basalts date the infill by dust.
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A greater proportion of the mare rocks resemble basalts on the Earth and are called mare basalts.
basin
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Basalts are the dark lava rocks that fill mare basins .
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The mare basins have dark, rather smooth floors that lie well below the altitude of the highlands.
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When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before.
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The individual mare basins differ significantly in composition.
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However, it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring.
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Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
brood
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Now, at Deer Forest, two brood mares were all that was left from former dreams and ambitions.
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Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the mare , as if finally understanding, begins to strain, tosses her head wildly, pulls at the reins.
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Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares, this is not a question of dominance or bullying.
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I rather gather Geoffrey, my youngest, has got a nice mare showing.
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Recruit sought: Cleveland Police are looking for an unusual recruit a horse following the retirement of ten-year-old mare Gellerdale.
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The mare struggles, writhes, strains.
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The wood was only a hundred paces away, but the sweat-streaked mare was blown and slowing.