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rupestral, a. and n.|ruːˈpɛstrəl|
[f. mod.L. rupestris, f. L. rūpes rock + -al1.]
Growing on rocks. Also as n., a rupestral plant.
1847H. C. Watson Cybele Brit. I. 340 Native. Rupestral and Pascual. Frequent on the Highland mountains. 1854J. H. Balfour Outl. Bot. 527 Rupestral and mural plants are those found on rocks and walls, such as species of Saxifrage, Sedum, Draba,..Lichens and Mosses. 1926J. J. Walker Nat. Hist. Oxford Distr. 104 Many of these [alpine species] are rupestrals. 1932G. C. Druce Comital Flora Brit. Isles p. xiii, A ‘rupestral’ may also be a wet or a dry lover. 1970Watsonia VIII. 115 Unlike most species of Hieracium it is usually a soil plant rather than rupestral.
So ruˈpestrean, ruˈpestrine, adjs.; ruˈpestrian a., done on rock or cave walls.
1786Abercrombie Arr. in Gard. Assist. 66 Rupestrean or rock stone-crop sedum. 1890Cent. Dict., Rupestrine, rock-inhabiting; living or growing on or among rocks. 1896A. H. Keane Ethnology 137 The carvings on the dolmen des marchands, Brittany, are almost identical with those of the so-called ‘rupestrian inscriptions’ of Tunisia and South Algeria. 1934‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits & Other Poems 52 Look over this beach. What ruderal and rupestrine growth is here? 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites 215 The powerful rupestrian art of the later [Hittite] empire was probably stimulated by the rulers. 1967M. Bullock tr. Lommel's World of Early Hunters iv. 127 The influence of rupestrian art on Negro art, particularly Negro sculpture, has not been elucidated. When we speak of African art we have grown accustomed to thinking only of Negro art, ignoring the rock-paintings or referring to them only marginally. |