rupicaprine

1. not comparableRelating to, or resembling, the chamois, or other extinct mammals of the genus Rupicapra.

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

   1918, Geographical Review, volume 6, page 10

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   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.

   1921, Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia and North America, page 476

   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).

   2013, Jordi Agusti, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids

plural rupicaprines

1. A mammal of the genus Rupicapra; a chamois.

   These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.

   2012, Hiroaki Soma, The Biology and Management of Capricornis and Related Mountain Antelopes

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   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.

   1984, K. Kuhbièr, Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands, page 117

   The caprines, apart from rupicaprines and Saigini have been included by Schaller (1977) in the category 'selective grazer and browser; uses several vegetation types; seasonal diet change; large home area' of Jarman's (1974) classification.

   1994, Y. P. S. Pangtey, High Altitudes of the Himalaya