caprine
About 0.04 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of or relating to Caprinae (goats, sheep, and certain wild relatives).
- adjective Of or relating to Capra (goats).
- adjective Goatlike: goatish; goaty.
- noun A caprid: a (domestic or wild) goat or sheep: any member of the tribe Caprini (corresponding to the archaic taxon Capridae).
- noun A (domestic or wild) goat: any of certain caprids, the ones in the genus Capra.
- noun Alternative form of caprin.
Similar words
goat goats hircine capric capitative capillitial capnographic capuan capillaric capricornian
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