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mountain goat
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: Rocky Mountain goat
Quotations
1888
The time is closed for the shooting of mountain sheep and goat till September, and it is somewhat aggravating, for poor Algernon to feel so near and be unable to have a few days with them.
1966
Mountain goat also abound in the mountainous region . . . in . . . southeastern British Columbia.