GENUS CAPRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Capra mean? 

• GENUS CAPRA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CAPRA has 1 sense:

1. goats

  Familiarity information: GENUS CAPRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CAPRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Capra; genus Capra

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Capra"):

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

Holonyms ("genus 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)