caprine animal

Questions about caprine animal

What does caprine animal mean?

caprine animal means "any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns".

What is another word for caprine animal?

Close synonyms include 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 caprine animal a common word?

caprine animal 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.