DCHP-2

Rocky Mountain goat DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

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

  • 1888  (1890)  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. . . .