Definition of Capra aegagrus

1. Noun. Wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions.

Exact synonyms: Bezoar Goat, Pasang
Generic synonyms: Wild Goat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capra Aegagrus

Caporetto
Capoten
Cappadocia
Cappadocian
Cappadocians
Capparidaceae
Capparis
Capparis arborea
Capparis cynophallophora
Capparis flexuosa
Capparis mitchellii
Capparis spinosa
Capps
Capps' reflex
Capra
Capra aegagrus
Capra falconeri
Capra hircus
Capra ibex
Caprella
Capreolus
Capreolus capreolus
Capri
Capricorn
Capricorn the Goat
Capricornian
Capricornians
Capricornis
Capricorns
Capricornus

Literary usage of Capra aegagrus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of by John Bachman (1850)
"All authors that we have consulted, including Hamilton Smith himself,)] regard the capra aegagrus as the origin of all the varieties of our domesticated ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"capra aegagrus, the Persian Wild Goat, ranges from the Caucasus to Sind. It is this animal which produces the true " bezoar stone. ..."

3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1855)
"... Caucasus and Persia (capra aegagrus), which is also called the Bezoar Goat, from the peculiar concretion called bezoar which is found in its intestines. ..."

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