rupicaprineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

rupicaprine ‎(not comparable)

1. Relating to, or resembling, the chamois, or other extinct mammals of the genus Rupicapra.
   • 1918, Geographical Review^[1], volume 6, page 10:

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

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

     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.

   • 2013, Jordi Agusti, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids^[2]:

     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 かつ Barranco Conejos, Spain).