English word senses marked with lifeform category "Goats"
Parent categories: Caprines, Livestock, Even-toed ungulates, Agriculture, Animals, Mammals, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Vertebrates, Sciences, Life, Chordates, Nature
Total 68 word senses
- African pygmy goat (Noun) Synonym of American Pygmy.
- Alpine goat (Noun) A medium to large-sized breed of domestic goat that originated in the French Alps.
- American Pygmy (Noun) An American breed of achondroplastic (dwarf) goat.
- American pygmy goat (Noun) Synonym of American Pygmy.
- Anglo-Nubian (Noun) Synonym of Anglo-Nubian goat.
- Anglo-Nubian goat (Noun) A large breed of long-eared goat originating in the United Kingdom.
- Angora goat (Noun) Synonym of angora.
- Boer goat (Noun) A breed of goat originated in South Africa.
- Capricornus (Proper name) Capricorn
- Cashmere (Noun) A breed of goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) raised for its hair.
- Galician goat (Noun) Capra aegagrus hircus, a breed of goat originating from Galicia.
- Judas goat (Noun) A goat trained to find feral goats.
- Nubian goat (Noun) Synonym of Anglo-Nubian goat.
- Oberhasli goat (Noun) A modern American breed of dairy goat that derives from the subtype of the Chamois Colored Goat from the Oberhasli district of the Bernese Oberland in central Switzerland (the original creation / pure line of the Oberhasli goat was lost in the country of Switzerland).
- Pyrenean ibex (Noun) A recently extinct subspecies of the Iberian ibex (†Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).
- Saanen goat (Noun) A white or cream-colored breed of goat.
- agrimi (Noun) A type of goat with long horns that curl back, native to Crete, subspecies Capra hircus cretica, sometimes Capra aegagrus cretica et al.
- angora (Noun) A Turkish Angora cat.
- angora goat (Noun) Synonym of angora (“type of goat”).
- bezoar goat (Noun) A wild goat, Capra aegagrus, native to Asia Minor and the Middle East and also found on Crete, now believed ancestral to the domestic goat.
- bezoar ibex (Noun) The bezoar goat.
- billy (Noun) A billy club.
- billy (Noun) A billy goat.
- billy (Noun) A billy goat.; A male goat; a ram.
- billy (Noun) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
- billy goat (Noun) A male goat.
- bouquetin (Noun) Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)
- bucardo (Noun) The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).
- capreol (Noun) A billy goat or small roebuck.
- doe (Noun) A female kangaroo.
- doeling (Noun) A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.
- fainting goat (Noun) a breed of domestic goat characterised by a genetic disorder known as myotonia congenita, wherein the muscles freeze for roughly 3 seconds when the goat feels panic
- get someone's goat (Verb) To annoy or infuriate someone.
- goat (Noun) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
- goatrel (Noun) A kid (young goat).
- goatskin (Noun) a bodhran drum.
- he-goat (Noun) A male goat.
- hircine (Adjective) Libidinous; lustful.
- ibex (Noun) A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
- kid (Noun) Kidskin.
- kid glove (Noun) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.
- kid leather (Noun) Leather made from the skin of a young goat.
- kidskin (Noun) The leather made from such skins.
- kri-kri (Noun) feral Cretan goat
- lamb (Noun) A young sheep.
- lamb (Noun) A simple, unsophisticated person.
- lamb (Noun) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
- lamb (Noun) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
- lamb (Verb) Of a sheep, to give birth.
- markhoor (Noun) Alternative form of markhor
- markhor (Noun) A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros, having huge flattened spiral horns, found in the western Himalayas.
- markhore (Noun) Alternative form of markhor
- morocco (Noun) A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
- nanny (Noun) A female goat.
- nanny goat (Noun) A female goat.
- pashmina (Noun) Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.
- sakeen (Noun) An ibex of the Himalayas.
- serpent-eater (Noun) The secretary bird.
- she-goat (Noun) A female goat.
- spider goat (Noun) A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.
- steinbock (Noun) A type of ibex (Capra ibex).
- tur (Noun) Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
- walia (Noun) The ibex Capra walie
- waterskin (Noun) A container for water made of skin.
- wether (Noun) Archaic spelling of weather.
- wild goat (Noun) Capra aegagrus, a species or goat believed ancestral to and including the domestic goat.
- wineskin (Noun) A bag, traditionally made from the skin of a goat (a goatskin), used for holding and dispensing wine.
- ægagrus (Noun) Obsolete form of aegagrus.
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