A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Capra,-ae (s.f.I): a she-goat; see goat.

- [Ceratodon; moss] A keras [=L.] cornu et odous, [= L.] dens, inde quod peristomii dentes inflexione sua et trabeculis nodulosis caprae cornua referunt (C. Muell.), from keras, [horn] and odous, [tooth], thence, because the teeth of the peristome resemble, by its characteristic inflexion and the trabeculae [i.e. cross-bars] with little knobs resembling the horns of a goat.

Capra,-ae (s.f.I): a genus (family Bovidae) [> L. capra,-ae (s.f.I), a she-goat); all males in the genus have rank odors. Capra hircus: the ‘she-goat foat = domestic or wild (feral) goat.

Oxalis Pes-caprae, Goat’s Foot, for the “deep thickened or tuberous tap-root and scaly bulbs” (Bailey 1949).

NOTE: (Rupicapra rupicapra), the ‘rock-goat,’ the chamois, is a small agile goatlike antelope that lives on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe and in the Caucasus (WIII).