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capriped

capriped adjective: having or relating to feet like those of a goat.

Adjective

capriped (not comparable)

  1. Having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
    • […] so deep in the confidence of nature in general that they seem to belong to the forest, and to be fellows with its denizens, like the capriped satyrs […]1876 June 29, Frank Carpenter, “Notes of the Wheeler Expedition”, in Forest and Stream, volume 6, number 21, →ISSN, page 336

Noun

capriped (plural capripeds)

  1. A goat-footed person; a satyr.
    • And into the hall twirled six capripeds, footing it lightly as the music swept ever faster, and a one-footer that leaped hither and thither about and about, as the flea hoppeth, till the Witches grew hoarse with singing and shouting and hounding of him on.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35

Forms of capriped

pluralcapripeds
alternative formcapripede

Origin of capriped

From Latin capriped-, capripēs.

Questions about capriped

What does capriped mean?
Capriped means having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
What part of speech is capriped?
Capriped can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near capriped in the dictionary

  1. Caprios
  2. Capriote
  3. Capriotes
  4. Capriotti
  5. Capriottis
  6. capriped
  7. capripede
  8. capripedes
  9. capripeds
  10. capripox
  11. capripoxvirus

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