dromedary

How To Use dromedary 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.
• One, found in northern Africa and central Asia, consists of the dromedary (one-humped camel) and bactrian camels (two-humped camel).
• The road lay up rocky hill and down stony vale; a tripping and stumbling dromedary had been substituted for the usual monture: the consequence was that we had either a totter or a tumble once per mile during the whole of that long night. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• Some think that today's one-humped dromedary also derived from this two-humped camel ancestor.
• The word dromedary is formed from the Greek _celer_, and only belongs to A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
• One group eventually crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Asia where, following an evolutionary path that's only sketchily understood, it became the two-humped Bactrian camel and the one-humped dromedary.
• A little later, full into view swung a duplication of his own dromedary, tall and white, and bearing a houdah, the travelling litter of Hindostan. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
• Though the camel is a heavy beast of burden, the dromedary, which is either of the same or of a kindred species, is used by the natives of Asia and Africa on all occasions which require celerity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The dromedary is a swifter animal than the baggage-camel, and is used chiefly for riding purposes; it is merely a finer breed than the other. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Alligators eat you, bees sting, crabs pinch, riding a dromedary makes you dizzy.