[
US
/ˈkæməɫ/
]
[ UK /kˈæməl/ ]
[ UK /kˈæməl/ ]
NOUN
- cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
How To Use camel In A Sentence
- Something about paper walls, I think, about archery, and a good deal about evergreen laurel, myrtle and wild camellia.
- Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
- Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
- Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon. Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
- Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
- The straw that broke the camel's back was "jete" - which I said was a ballet term, from the French. Archive 2009-01-01
- The llama is related to the camel.
- The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls.
- Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
- In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot".