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‖ rupiˈcapra Zool.
[L., f. rūpes rock + capra she-goat.]
The chamois (Rupicapra tragus).
1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some beasts and birds we find live upon the highest tops of the Alps,..as the Ibex, and Rupicapra, or Chamois. 1728Chambers Cycl., Chamois Leather..is prepar'd from the Skin of the Chamois, a kind of Rupi-Capra, or wild Goat.
Hence rupiˈcaprine a.
1827Griffith tr. Cuvier IV. 281 The Rupicaprine Group. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 384/1 The only Antelope found in Western Europe, and..the type of the Rupicaprine or goat-like group of that family. 1891Flower & Lydekker Mamm. 349 Rupicaprine section [of the Bovidæ]. |