Indian tailless goat (3)
I believe the answer is:
goa
'indian' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'tailless goat' is the wordplay.
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'goat' with its last letter taken away is 'GOA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for goa that I've seen before include "gazelle?" , "Indian W. coast state" , "Region of India" , "State of India, a former Portuguese colony" , "West coast Indian state" .)