camel
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
camel/ˈkaml/
▶noun
- 1 a large, long-necked, mainly domesticated ungulate mammal of arid country, with long legs, broad feet, and either one or two humps on the back. [Camelus dromedarius (Arabian camel, N. Africa and SW Asia, with one hump) and C. ferus (Bactrian camel, central Asia, two humps).]
- 2 a fabric made from camel hair.
- 3 an apparatus for raising a sunken ship, consisting of one or more watertight chests to provide buoyancy.
– origin OE, from L. camelus, from Gk kamēlos, of Semitic origin.
'camel' also found in these Oxford entries:
Bactrian camel
- camel cricket
- cameleer
- camel hair
- camelopard
- camel spider
- dromedary
- hump
- llama
- must
- ship of the desert
- straw
