steppic

comparative more steppic · superlative most steppic

1. geographyPertaining to a steppe.

   The steppic corridor opened the way to and from Inner Asia.

   2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus, Routledge

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   Of the steppic goat (the Antilope Saiga of Pallas) which is accustomed to spend its winter in the southern parts on Lake Aral, I saw numerous herds returning with the warmer season to the Northern Steppe, where, both for their skin and flesh, they become valuable objects of the chace to the Cossacks.

   1816 March 1, “Sketch of Professor Tauscher's Tours in the Southern parts of Russia in Asia”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, page 103

   The groups include a steppic, a Mediterranean / temperate forest, and a montane group for larger herbivores; a rabbit group (as they are the most numerous of the fauna and possibly the most local to the rocky cliffs and sandy foreshore in the immediate vicinity of the site); and a carnivore group (to assess the potential for non-human carnivores being responsible for the assemblage).

   1988, C. Michael Barton, Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, →OCLC