DCHP-3

Rocky Mountain goat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a goatlike mammal, Oreamnos montanus, found in the western mountains and related to the European chamois.

See: goat(def. 1b),mountain goat,white sheep(def. 1),wild goat(def. 2)

Quotations

1888
Upon the grass slopes of Castle Mountain, which stood high above us, are sometimes to be seen the Rocky Mountain goat.
1958
Upon the trapper in the frozen silence of the north the Dall sheep and the Rocky Mountain goat look down. . . .