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Definition of Rocky Mountain goat
1. Noun. Sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America.
Generic synonyms: Goat Antelope
Group relationships: Genus Oreamnos, Oreamnos
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocky Mountain Goat
Literary usage of Rocky Mountain goat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of by Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson (1832)
"... The Rein-deer—The Woodland Caribou—The Rocky Mountain Sheep—The Rocky Mountain
Goat—The Bison, or American Buffalo—The Musk-ox. ..."
2. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"It is Billy the Rocky Mountain goat. " Billy is as awkward-looking as he moves
about as Bighorn is graceful, but he will go where even Bighorn will hesitate ..."
3. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1905)
"THE Rocky Mountain goat. By MADISON GRANT. THE white or Rocky Mountain goat shares
with the musk-ox the honor of being the least known of the game animals ..."
4. Sporting Adventures in the Far West by John Mortimer Murphy (1879)
"The rocky mountain goat—Position in Natural History—Its classification—Supposed
to be a goat-antelope—Its appearance, haunts and habits—Character of its ..."
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