dromedary

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The difference between a camel and a dromedary is the difference between a hack and a thorough-bred horse.

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  1. noun The one-humped domesticated camel (Camelus dromedarius), widely used as a beast of burden in northern Africa and western Asia. Also called Arabian camel.

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  • While some creatures, such as the dromedary, take them in their stride, for others the only escape from such bombardments is to bury themselves in the sand. —  Mininova
  • There are two types of camels -- dromedary and Bactrian. —  NewsObserver.com - Home
  • A dromedary is a thorough-bred Arabian camel of more than ordinary speed and bottom; hence well adapted for running 5. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
  • A man had passed the band that day on a fast dromedary, and the prisoners conjectured that he might have brought news of some defeat of their friends, which would account for their increased cruelty. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
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  1. Middle English dromedarie, from Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedārius, from Latin dromas, dromad-, from Greek, running.

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  1. Early modern English also dromedare from Middle English dromedarie, -ary, also drowmondere, from Old French dromedaire, French dromadaire = Provencal dromadari, dromedari, dromodari = Spanish dromedal, dromedario = Portuguese Italian dromedario = Dutch drommedaris = G. Danish Swedish dromedar, from Late Latin dromedarius, properly *dromadarius, extended, with suffix -arius, from L. dromas (dromad-), a dromedary, from Greek δρομάς (δρομαδ-), running (cf. δρομαῑος κἀμηλος, a dromedary, literally running camel), from δραμεῑν, 2d aorist associated with τρέχειν, run.
 

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/ˈdrəmədeɪri/
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