caprine

adjective

cap·​rine ˈka-ˌprīn 

: of, relating to, or being a goat

caprine serum

the caprine family

Examples of caprine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But come the Hellenistic age, which began around 323 B.C.E., the Greeks started depicting satyrs as half-man, half-goat, with caprine legs, hooves and horns—the anatomy found in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson children’s novels. —Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024

To mine this caprine local knowledge, a handful of these animals were fitted with electronic tags, allowing the researchers to monitor their behavior from afar. —WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023

The same problem sometimes occurs when A.I. tries to render smaller features such as ears, which appear as fleshy whirlpools without the intricate cartilage structure; or teeth, which sit incorrectly in the mouth; or pupils, which turn out as caprine blobs. —Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin caprinus, from capr-, caper

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above