camelopard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of camelopard
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin camēlopardus, for Latin camēlopardālis < Greek kamēlopárdalis giraffe, equivalent to kámēlo ( s ) camel + pardalis pard 1
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Not until the seventeenth century did the English, who fixated on the giraffe’s camel-ish shape and leopard-ish coloring, stop calling it a camelopard.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
The animal is sometimes called camelopard, from two Greek words which signify camel and panther, since in some respects it is like a camel, while its spots are suggestive of the panther.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
The chamois, or zomer of the ancient Jews, has by different authors been described as the camelopard or giraffe.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
The eighth book, which is devoted to land-animals, contains notices respecting the elephant, dragons, serpents, lions, panthers, tigers, the camel, the camelopard, the rhinoceros, and a multitude of other mammalia, and reptiles.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
There is here a fine giraffe, or camelopard, of an amazing height, stuffed.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Sir John Carr
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