cashmere goat

Luxury wool producer

A cashmere goat is any breed of goat that produces cashmere wool—the fine, soft undercoat fiber prized for luxury textiles.

The term describes the fiber production rather than a specific breed; various goat breeds across Central Asia, Mongolia, and elsewhere yield cashmere.

Cashmere goats are sheared or combed in spring when they naturally shed their winter undercoat.

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luxurious · fleece · Himalayan · Mongolia · high altitude · Tibet · pashmina · shawl · sweater · herding · undercoat · combing · downy · warmth · cold climate · angora · mohair · silky

Opposites
purpose/production type

cashmere goatdairy goat

Goat bred for milk

beef cattle · broiler chicken

Family

cashmere, goat, goats, goatherd, goatee, goatskin, Kashmir

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G