mountain goat

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   sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America

   SynonymsRocky Mountain goatOreamnos americanus

   Broadergoat antelope

   Part ofOreamnos

Questions about mountain goat

What does mountain goat mean?

mountain goat means "sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America".

What is another word for mountain goat?

Close synonyms include Rocky Mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain goat a common word?

mountain goat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.