Thursday, 25 September 2014

Geep

Word of the Day for Thursday 25th September 2014


Geep \geep\
Noun
1. The hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
Quotes
One of his goat-plus-sheep chimeras, known colloquially as a geep, was featured on the cover of Nature.
-- Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, 2000
Origin
Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970’s that combines the words goat and sheep.

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