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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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. —  L.A. Art
  • 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? —  The Breath of Life
  • The prickly pear, in fact, is a typical instance of a desert plant, as the camel is a typical instance of a desert animal. —  Science in Arcady
  • The Arab's love for his camel is a love of gratitude, for does not the —  Desert Love
  • 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? —  The Breath of Life
 

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  1. 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.

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  1. Early modern English also cammel; from Middle English camel, kamel, also chamel, from Old French camel, chamel, French chameau = Provencal camel = Spanish camello = Portuguese camelo = Italian cammello = Old Northumbrian camel, camal (see Anglo-Saxon word below) = Dutch kameel = German kamel = Danish kamel = Swedish kamel = Icelandic kamell (rare) = Old Bulgarian Bulgarian Servian kamila = Hungarian gamila, from Latin camēlus, from Greek κάμηλος, masculine and feminine (New Greek κάμηλος, masculine, καμήλα, feminine), from Hebrew gāmāl = Arabic jamal, jemel = Coptic gamul, a camel. In the older Teutonic languages the camel was called by a name derived from that of the elephant: Gothic (Moesogothic) ulbandus = Old High German olbentā, Middle High German olbente = Anglo-Saxon olfend = Old Saxon olbhunt = Icelandic ūlfaldi, a camel.
 

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