[
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
- 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.
- Something about paper walls, I think, about archery, and a good deal about evergreen laurel, myrtle and wild camellia.
- 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".
- They hunt for camel meat by putting land mines around the region's brackish waterholes.