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WILD GOAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild goat mean?
• WILD GOAT (noun)
The noun WILD GOAT has 1 sense:
1. undomesticated goat
Familiarity information: WILD GOAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undomesticated goat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("wild goat" is a kind of...):
caprine animal; goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild goat"):
bezoar goat; Capra aegagrus; pasang (wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions)
Capra falconeri; markhoor; markhor (large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns)
Capra ibex; ibex (wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns)
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