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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rocky Mountain goat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

Example Sentences

Fisher’s collection features bacteria from all times and places, including strains isolated from African cattle in 1931, Rocky Mountain goats and Mouflons from Qatar.

From Scientific American

Down in the green basin, under the crag where the ram kept guard for his sheep and ewes, grazed a large flock of Rocky Mountain goats.

From Project Gutenberg

You Rocky Mountain goat hunters don’t need any course of training in the Alps.”

From Project Gutenberg

From here I staged across the divide to New Westminster, on the Frazer river, the home of Mr. J. C. Hughs, who had invited me there to hunt Rocky Mountain goats with him.

From Project Gutenberg

The blue roan made that butte slick as a Rocky Mountain goat.

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