camel
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- noun
- /ˈkæməl/
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camello
- At the zoo, children were fascinated by the large camel that approached the fence.
- ride a camel
- a caravan of camels
- Bactrian camel
Hey, man, why we don't have camels here in North America?
- Hey, man, why we don't have camels here in North America?
- And so it used to race other camels and always used to win.
- Things like how the lion got his mane and how the camel got his hump and so on.
- They're animal hairs like wool, alpaca, camel hair.
- There's even a dead camel they reek the most.
- OK, they're big on dates and camel milk stuff here.
- Let me tell you about how much we owe to camel poop.
Examples
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Tafa, of noble origins, owned several camels but had also begun gardening.
Academic text (1992) -
A giant desert set has been erected, with camels and real sand dunes.
Fiction book (1994) -
What is the use of a camel if one is looking for a horse?
Academic text (1991) -
The camel was kept in a cage at the zoo.
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And so it used to race other camels and always used to win.
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All you can hear are the camel's feet walking in the sand.
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The federation consists almost entirely of desert that can be crossed only by camels and four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Academic text (1997) -
The camel is known for its ability to thrive in harsh desert conditions.
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During the caravan journey, we rode on a camel to cross the vast desert.
Synonyms
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A large camel with one hump that lives in hot deserts
A large camel with one hump that lives in desert areas of northern Africa and southwest Asia
A large desert animal with a single hump that can live a long time without water
A large camel with two humps that lives in cold deserts of Central Asia
A large camel with two humps that lives in the cold deserts of central Asia
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How Desert-Adapted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Camel comes from Middle Eastern languages such as Arabic jamal and Hebrew gamal, where the word simply meant 'camel'. That's why the English word still names the desert animal with humps that people use to carry goods across long distances.