ADJECTIVE
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being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats
a caprine voice
a caprine strain of virus
caprine creatures
How To Use caprine In A Sentence
- For example, the portico's cornice, which in Egypt would exhibit cobra head uraei, is surmounted instead by a row of bearded caprine heads.
- Ruminants -- including the giraffes, the antler-bearing forms called deer, the cavicorn or sheath-horned bovines, ovines and caprines, and the large series of antelopes of Africa and India -- all have precisely this form of jaw, this number and shape and grouping of the teeth. More Science From an Easy Chair
- Kids get some as they grow, but the ‘teenagers’ - caprine heifers - get none until the last few weeks of pregnancy.
- Similarly, cattle husbandry was only introduced to the island during the Early Bronze Age, and faunal assemblages suggest that caprines and fallow deer were the main meat components of the Cypriot diet in the Chalcolithic period.
- Although the entire work shares stylistic traits, such as the rendering of caprine heads and lion's paws, that indicate a probable common production, the maker employed two separate artistic traditions.
- The level of certainty is highest for bovine clones, followed in decreasing order of certainty, by porcine, caprine, and ovine clones.
- There are a number of caprine cattle that are cooked in the ancient style, including ram and sheep, but since the early nineties the most popular (read unlucky) of these inhabitants of the hills has been the borrego pelibuey. BBQ Goat In Oaxaca: The Pomp, Ceremony And Tradition
- She backed away, with what I guess was disgust, but the caprine expressions were always the hardest for me to fathom.
- Even my law-and-order father loosens up, providing the appropriate barnyard noises that accompany the singing of Chad Gadya (‘One kid that father bought’ - of the caprine persuasion).
- a caprine voice