capra hircus

1. 1.

   any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool

   Synonymsdomestic goat

   Broadergoat

   NarrowerCashmere goatAngora

Questions about capra hircus

What does capra hircus mean?

capra hircus means "any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool".

What is another word for capra hircus?

Close synonyms include domestic goat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capra hircus a common word?

capra hircus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.