Meaning of rupicaprine | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to, or resembling, the chamois, or other extinct mammals of the genus Rupicapra.

not-comparable

Examples

“They are also sometimes called the Rupicaprine antelopes from the scientific name of the chamois (Rupicapra).”

“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.”

“Among the ungulate world, the entries were much more limited, restricted, in fact, to the first elk of the species Libralces gallicus (from the site of Sene`ze, France), sometimes included in the genus Cervalces; the rupicaprine bovid Gallogoral Gallogoral meneghini; and one species of the ovibovine bovid Praeovibos (whose oldest record comes from the latest Pliocene beds of Almenara I and Barranco Conejos, Spain).”

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