Camelopardalis

American  

[kuh-mel-uh-pahr-dl-is, kam-uh-loh-] / kəˌmɛl əˈpɑr dl ɪs, ˌkæm ə loʊ- /

noun

Astronomy.

genitive

Camelopardalis

1. the Giraffe, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Perseus.

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Example Sentences

The results, which she presented first in a 1958 paper for the Zoological Society of London and later in a 1976 book, “The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology,” established her as the world’s leading expert on the gawky-legged, mottled Giraffa camelopardalis.

From New York Times

In 1758, the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus described a single species of giraffe: Giraffa camelopardalis.

From New York Times

Naval Observatory, it can be found in the constellation Camelopardalis.

From Washington Post

Though the calf has no name, she’s officially a Giraffa camelopardalis subspecies tippelskirchii , which can weigh up to 2,700 pounds and grow up to 17 feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times

The dozen traces are consistent with tracks made by today’s Giraffa camelopardalis, Helm and coauthors write, and are the best evidence that giraffes lived in this part of South Africa during the latest part of the Pleistocene.

From Scientific American