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Definition of Oreamnos
1. Noun. Mountain goats.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Mountain Goat, Oreamnos Americanus, Rocky Mountain Goat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oreamnos
Literary usage of Oreamnos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"The type locality of oreamnos montanus (Ord) is given by Miller and Rehn (Proc.
... A comparison of specimens of oreamnos from the Cascades of northern ..."
2. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1905)
"In addition to its uniformly white color, oreamnos differs from the serow in ...
In this latter respect oreamnos departs widely from all the other members ..."
3. The Rocky Mountain Goat by Madison Grant, New York Zoological Society (1905)
"In addition to its uniformly white color, oreamnos differs from the serow in ...
In this latter respect oreamnos departs widely from all the other members ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"In view of these facts there seems to be no escape from the adoption of the name
oreamnos as the earliest available generic name for the Mountain Goat, ..."
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