CAPRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Capra mean? 

• CAPRA (noun)
  The noun CAPRA has 2 senses:

1. United States film maker (1897-1991)

2. goats

  Familiarity information: CAPRA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States film maker (1897-1991)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Capra; Frank Capra

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Goats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Capra; genus Capra

Hypernyms ("Capra" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Capra"):

caprine animal; goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)

Holonyms ("Capra" is a member of...):

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)

 Context examples 

Any one of several species in the genus Capra, most commonly Capra hircus.

(Goat, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the Old World, especially any of the domesticated forms of C. hircus, raised for wool, milk, and meat.

(Goat, NCI Thesaurus)