"steppic" meaning in English

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      "form": "more steppic",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1988, C. Michael Barton, Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, →OCLC",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus, Routledge",
          "text": "The steppic corridor opened the way to and from Inner Asia.",
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        "Pertaining to a steppe."
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        "(geography) Pertaining to a steppe."
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          "roman": "stépavy",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "стэ́павы"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "estèpic"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "estepari"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "steppico"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "stepowy"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "stepnój",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "степно́й"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "estepario"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "stepovýj",
          "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
          "word": "степови́й"
        }
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  "word": "steppic"
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      "roman": "stépavy",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "стэ́павы"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "estèpic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "estepari"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "steppico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "stepowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stepnój",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "степно́й"
    },
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "estepario"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stepovýj",
      "sense": "pertaining to a steppe",
      "word": "степови́й"
    }
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  "word": "steppic"
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