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CAPRINE ANIMAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
Synonyms:
caprine animal; goat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("caprine animal" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Meronyms (parts of "caprine animal"):
horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)
beard (hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caprine animal"):
kid (young goat)
billy; billy goat; he-goat (male goat)
nanny; nanny-goat; she-goat (female goat)
Capra hircus; domestic goat (any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool)
wild goat (undomesticated goat)
Holonyms ("caprine animal" is a member of...):
Capra; genus Capra (goats)
