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Mountain goat   /mˈaʊntən goʊt/   Listen
Mountain goat

noun
1.
Sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America.  Synonyms: Oreamnos americanus, Rocky Mountain goat.






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"Mountain goat" Quotes from Famous Books



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— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... Kind nature first upon the craggy clift Bewrayed this herb unto the mountain goat, That when her sides a cruel shaft hath rift, With it she shakes the reed out of her coat; This in a moment fetched the angel swift, And brought from Ida hill, though far remote, The juice whereof in a prepared bath Unseen the ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso

... Navaho traditions, their ancestors, when they came into the country, wore blankets that were made of cedar bark and yucca fibre. Even in the Alaska (Thlinket) blankets, made today of the wool of the white mountain goat, cedar bark is twisted in with the wool of the warp. Why, then, should not the Navaho woman have brought the art of weaving, possibly in a very primitive stage, from her original Alaskan home? That her art, however, has been improved by her contact with the Pueblo and other Indians, there ...
— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James

... our way around this mountain to that ridge." Uncle Bill shifted the meat to the other shoulder, and travelled along the steep side with the sure-footed swiftness of a venerable mountain goat. ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart



Words linked to "Mountain goat" :   goat antelope, Rocky Mountain goat, Oreamnos, genus Oreamnos



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