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CAPRINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does caprine mean?
• CAPRINE (adjective)
The adjective CAPRINE has 1 sense:
1. being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats
Familiarity information: CAPRINE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a caprine voice
Pertainym:
goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)
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