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steppic

steppic adjective: pertaining to a steppe.

Adjective

steppic (comparative more steppic, superlative most steppic)

  1. Pertaining to a steppe.
    • 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...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...1988, C. Michael Barton, Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, →OCLC

Forms of steppic

comparativemore steppic
superlativemost steppic

Origin of steppic

From steppe + -ic.

Questions about steppic

What does steppic mean?
Steppic means pertaining to a steppe.
What part of speech is steppic?
Steppic is an adjective.

Words near steppic in the dictionary

  1. stepper motors
  2. steppers
  3. steppes
  4. steppest
  5. steppeth
  6. steppic
  7. steppification
  8. steppin'
  9. stepping
  10. stepping aside
  11. stepping back

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