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# goat

«goat» in Mova's school dictionary: **an animal with horns and often a beard, kept on farms for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (goat, goats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A goat is an animal with horns and often a beard, kept on farms for milk, meat and wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#m1)

2) Wild goats live in the mountains and are very good climbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#m2)

3) A baby goat is a kid; a male is a billy goat and a female is a nanny goat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted animal with 4 legs; milk per goat (goats × litres each); legs puzzles with goats and chickens. In science: goats are mammals and herbivores. In stories: «The Three Billy Goats Gruff». Phrases: «billy goat», «goat's milk», «goat's cheese», «GOAT» (slang: the greatest of all time).

### examples

- A farmer has 8 goats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x1)
- Each goat gives 2 litres of milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x2)
- Goats and chickens have 50 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x3)
- How many legs do 6 goats have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x4)
- A goat has 4 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x5)
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff crossed the troll's bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x6)
- Mountain goats can climb steep rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x7)
- We fed the baby goats at the petting zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x8)
- “Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear,” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a goat». A young goat is a «kid» — the same word as for a child. Maths: counted animal with 4 legs. Trap: in goats and chickens puzzles the legs differ (4 and 2).

### In the corpora

- [Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/0/)
- [Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/)
- [Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/5/)
- [In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/17/)
- [Horns are different: a cow or goat keeps its horns for life, a bone core inside a cover of keratin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «goat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.