steppic

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English

Etymology

From steppe +‎ -ic.

Adjective

steppic (comparative more steppic, superlative most steppic)

  1. (geography) Pertaining to a steppe.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1988, C. Michael Barton, Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, →OCLC:
      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).
    • 2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus, Routledge:
      The steppic corridor opened the way to and from Inner Asia.

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