noun
bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats
• Hypernyms: ↑bovid
• Hyponyms:
↑mountain goat, ↑Rocky Mountain goat, ↑Oreamnos americanus, ↑goral, ↑Naemorhedus goral, ↑serow, ↑chamois, ↑Rupicapra rupicapra, ↑takin, ↑gnu goat, ↑Budorcas taxicolor
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bovidae, ↑family Bovidae
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noun : any of several bovid mammals (as the chamois, goral, Rocky Mountain goat) related to the goats but in some respects resembling the antelopes
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any of several wild goats with antelopelike features, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
[1840-50]
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goat antelope,
any one of several goatlike antelopes, such as the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.