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wild goat

• 1 Obs. the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, of the southern prairies.

  See also: antelope  

  • 1754  (1907)  Saw several wild goats.
  • 1853  [Norman called it "a goat," and stated that this was its name among the fur-traders, while the Canadian voyageurs give it the title of "cabree."]

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

  See also: Rocky Mountain goat  

  • 1807  (1890)  Large animals consist of the moose deer, and the wild goat; the latter is to be found only upon the Rocky Mountains, and is much the same as in Europe, though smaller and without beard.
  • 1875  (1888)  . . . the Stoney hunts the wild goat, and the big horned sheep, the black tail, the white tail, and the graceful antelope.