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
Example Sentences
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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
Some authors have proved the mildness and docility of the camelopard, while others represent it as incapable of being tamed.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various
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
One camelopard was of but little value to him.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
This was not the case with the camelopard that had got loose and fled among the foremost.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
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