CAPRINE ANIMAL

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Meaning:

Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns

Synonyms:

caprine animal; goat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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)