mouse-goats

Noun

mouse-goat (plural mouse-goats)

1. An extinct genus of goat-antelope (†Myotragus), which lived on the Balearic Islands in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
   • Other island examples include pygmy hippos, pygmy deer, pygmy foxes, and the peculiar “mouse-goat”—an extinct species of dwarf sheep that had lived on the Balearic Islands of Spain.2011, Dennis McCarthy, Here Be Dragons