Bactrian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Today there are more than 800–roughly the population of Tapanuli orangutans or wild Bactrian camels, but it’s too late to change metaphors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
In this case, the researchers were able to work out the Kushan meaning using parallel inscriptions in Bactrian carved into rocks found at Almosi Gorge and at Dašt-i Nāwur, in Afghanistan, in the 1960s.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
It has cloned critically endangered, double-humped wild Bactrian camels using the eggs and surrogate mothers of single humped camels, Wani said.
From Reuters ● May 25, 2023
By the end of the second century BCE, however, the Bactrian kingdom had collapsed due to constant civil wars between rival claimants to the throne.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The domestic animals that were ridden were the horse, donkey, yak, reindeer, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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