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Definition of Mountain goat

1. Noun. Sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America.

Definition of Mountain goat

1. Noun. A sure-footed goat antelope, ''Oreamnos americanus'', of the North American mountains, having black curved horns and a shaggy coat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Goat

Literary usage of Mountain goat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"ASCENDING GOAT CREEK mountain goat HUNTING WITH THE CAMERA. WITH OBSERVATIONS ON OTHER MAMMALS OF SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA. ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"It is much more alert than the mountain goat, and therefore more difficult to shoot,—so say the men who have hunted both. ..."

3. 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 ..."

4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"NEW FORMS OF THE mountain goat (OREAMNOS). By JA ALLEN. The type locality of Oreamnos montanus (Ord) is given by Miller and Rehn (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... montanus]—Some indefinite mention of the Rocky mountain goat is to be found in the narratives of the early Spanish explorers in California, ..."

6. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"ASCENDING GOAT CREEK mountain goat HUNTING WITH THE CAMERA. WITH OBSERVATIONS ON OTHER MAMMALS OF SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA. ..."

7. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"It is much more alert than the mountain goat, and therefore more difficult to shoot,—so say the men who have hunted both. ..."

8. 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 ..."

9. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"NEW FORMS OF THE mountain goat (OREAMNOS). By JA ALLEN. The type locality of Oreamnos montanus (Ord) is given by Miller and Rehn (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. ..."

10. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... montanus]—Some indefinite mention of the Rocky mountain goat is to be found in the narratives of the early Spanish explorers in California, ..."

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