camelopard

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  1. noun A giraffe.
  2. noun Heraldry A bearing resembling a giraffe but represented with long curved horns.

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  • A black shadow would be as noticeable as a camelopard and a gray one as visible as mist. —  FSF,October2007
  • My horse was over sixteen hands high, but I would gladly have exchanged him for a camelopard when I rode suddenly almost upon a snake coiled in the grass, and looked down into the eyes of the upraised head. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • Call on Professor Owen and ask if he wants anything in the four jars I still possess, of either rhinoceros, camelopard, etc., etc. If he wants these, or anything else these jars will hold, he must send me more jars and spirits of wine He afterward heard of the fate of one of the boxes of specimens he had sent home—that which contained the fossils of Bootchap. —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
  • Mandriva Linux 2009 Release Candidate 1 (code name camelopard) is available on public mirrors now (or will be in the coming hours). —  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?
  • Indeed, after all that has been said by anatomical naturalists, we might hazard assertion of the belief, that the camelopard is neither more nor less than a species of wild camel Its appearance need not be described. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
 

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin camēlopardus, from Latin camēlopardalis, from Greek kamēlopardalis : kamēlos, camel; see camel + pardalis, pard (so called because the giraffe has a head like a camel's and the spots of a leopard).

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  1. = French camélopard, caméléopard = Spanish camaleopardo, from Late Latin camelopardus, Middle Latin also cameleopardalus, a shortened form of Latin camelopardalis, Middle Latin also camelopardalus, from Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις, a giraffe, from κάμηλος a camel, + πάρδαλις, later πάρδος, a pard (leopard or panther).
 

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/ˈkæmɛləpɑrd/
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