Sunday, September 14, 2014

Word of the Day

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

The sheep cells and goat cells are distributed throughout the geep 's body in discrete groupings such as organs, bones, skin, etc.
-- James F. Harris, The Ascent of Man: A Philosophy of Human Nature , 2011

Origin:
Geep  is a portmanteau from the 1970s that combines the words goat  and sheep .

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