Rupicaprine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Rupicaprine is an adjective meaning Relating to, or resembling, the chamois, or other extinct mammals of the genus Rupicapra.
Meaning
Relating to, or resembling, the chamois, or other extinct mammals of the genus Rupicapra.
More Meanings
- A mammal of the genus Rupicapra; a chamois.
Example Sentences
They are also sometimes called the Rupicaprine antelopes from the scientific name of the chamois (Rupicapra).
These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.
Conspicuous among the new arrivals is the mountain goat (Oreamnos), the first member of the rupicaprine division of the antelope family to be recorded in North America.
An excellent indication of this fact is the absence in Pityusic Pleistocene sites of the rupicaprine Myotragus, which is so frequent in the ossiferous Quaternary breccia of Mallorca and Menorca.
Word Forms
- rupicaprines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caprid, capreoline, caprine, raptorious, procyonine, arietine.
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