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Rocky Mountain goat

noun

  1. a long-haired, white, antelopelike wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of mountainous regions of western North America, having short, black horns.


Rocky Mountain goat

noun

  1. a sure-footed goat antelope, Oreamnos americanus , inhabiting the Rocky Mountains. It has thick white hair and black backward-curving horns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Rocky Mountain goat1

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
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Example Sentences

As he rounded a point in the rocks, he came upon a Rocky Mountain goat engaged in combat with a cinnamon bear.

The white Rocky Mountain goat really is the wild mountain climber.

The white Rocky Mountain goat is the only representative of his species on our continent.

I also hoped, should time permit, to have a try for a Rocky Mountain goat, and possibly a bear on the Mainland.

They had scaled cliffs where nothing on hooves save a burro—or a Rocky Mountain goat—could have followed after.

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