she-goat
- noun
- /ʃiː ɡoʊt/
:
cabra
- After giving birth, the she-goat grazes peacefully in the meadow with her kids.
Examples
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Take me a heifer of three years old... and a she-goat of three years old and a ram of three years old... and a turtledove and a young pigeon.
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Select the finest of our lambs and goats, the best of our ewes and she-goats, our very best broadcloth, and prepare a caravan.
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A young she-goat?
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You need good rutting males, healthy she-goats, ewes that...
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That prancing she-goat!
Fiction book (1992) -
I put the peeled rods in the water troughs, and fixed some of them upright, so that they were facing... ...the she-goats that were on heat when they came to drink.
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They say she should sacrifice one she-goat, the homespun cloth she was wearing, and eleven shillings so that she might be able to have a child.
Academic text (2008) -
The farmer takes care of the she-goat along with the rest of his livestock.
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He watched as the she-goat nursed her young ones, keeping them close and safe.
Synonyms
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A female farm animal with horns and a beard that eats plants and gives milk
A female goat, usually an adult
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
She-goat is a simple compound of she and goat, where she means 'female' and goat is the animal. So she-goat simply means a goat that is female.