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rupicaprine (adjective), more rupicaprine, most rupicaprine
1. A reference to chamoix or chamois: Rupicaprine hoofed mammals dwell in the mountains of Eurasia and have upright horns with backward-hooked tips.
2. Etymology: from Middle French, from Late Latin camox; a small goatlike bovid (Rupicapra rupicapra) of mountainous regions from southern Europe to the Caucasus.
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