Definitions
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- adjective having one hump
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Examples
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(A second, rival camel dairy in the Emirates has no current plans for export.) "We just want to spread the news about camel milk," said the younger Wernery, whose office is around the corner from two skeletons of the one-humped local camel and its two-hump cousin in central Asia.
Dubai Camel Milk Producers Hope To Export 'Camelicious' Brand (PHOTOS) 2010
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I hesitated a moment before I picked up the receiver, hoping that standing up would give a new perspective on what at that point in my life was my greatest problem: whether I should go with a one-humped camel or a two.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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I hesitated a moment before I picked up the receiver, hoping that standing up would give a new perspective on what at that point in my life was my greatest problem: whether I should go with a one-humped camel or a two.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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I hesitated a moment before I picked up the receiver, hoping that standing up would give a new perspective on what at that point in my life was my greatest problem: whether I should go with a one-humped camel or a two.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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One red brown and one-humped, packed with a seemingly huge load which in reality it hardly felt, and two Bactrian or two-humped, pacing dromedaries of
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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"Why one-humped?" asked the girl, who was of an inquiring turn of mind, and was getting slightly mixed with her first endeavour to grasp something of Eastern life.
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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"Therefore for each resting-place there are two one-humped camels to carry all things necessary for your night's sojourn."
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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The one-humped camel is the chief means of transportation, especially on the uplands and in the remote eastern districts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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She curved her back up in the middle like a one-humped camel, plunged down behind and reared in front, at the same time keeping her legs as stiff as stilts.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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With the bundle on his back, the pony looked like an enormous one-humped camel.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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