: of, relating to, or being a goat
caprine serum
the caprine family
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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.
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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
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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
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“Caprine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caprine. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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