camel
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The late Mr. Getty was indeed of the view that a camel was a horse designed by a committee.
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- noun A humped, long-necked ruminant mammal of the genus Camelus, domesticated in Old World desert regions as a beast of burden and as a source of wool, milk, and meat.
- noun A device used to raise sunken objects, consisting of a hollow structure that is submerged, attached tightly to the object, and pumped free of water. Also called caisson.
- noun Sports A spin in figure skating that is performed in an arabesque or modified arabesque position.
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The late Mr. Getty was indeed of the view that a camel was a horse designed by a committee.
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And the camel is the oldest domesticated animal in the world, they say, the world, which is thousands and thousands of years.
— CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009 -
What play and action or interaction and reaction of purely chemical and mechanical forces can throw any light on the course evolution has taken in the animal life of the globe--why the camel is the camel, and the horse the horse?
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What play and action or interaction and reaction of purely chemical and mechanical forces can throw any light on the course evolution has taken in the animal life of the globe -- why the camel is the camel, and the horse the horse? or in the development of the nervous system, or the circulatory system, or the digestive system, or of the eye, or of the ear?
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Buying a camel is a lot like buying a car.
— CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006
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- Middle English, from Old English and from Anglo-Norman cameil, both from Latin camēlus, from Greek kamēlos, of Semitic origin; see gml1 in Semitic roots.
