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  • noun Plural form of cameleopard.

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Examples

  • No, camels aren't kosher, though cameleopards (AKA giraffes) are.

    Discourse.net: Just Passing Through 2009

  • No, camels aren't kosher, though cameleopards (AKA giraffes) are.

    Discourse.net: Just Passing Through 2009

  • He had created a unique race of peculiar beasts, with hairless, scaly hides and spotted necks like cameleopards.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • The hero of Egypt has here carried his arms into a country inhabited by lions, cameleopards, apes, and elephants none of which animals are found in Nubia or Dóngola; the elephant and cameleopard inhabit the banks of the Nile towards Sennaar, the forests on the frontiers of Abyssinia, and the banks of the

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • We were desperate -- would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos -- any thing.

    The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872

  • We were desperate -- would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos -- any thing.

    The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • Page 38 black chiefs of Cush or Ethiopia, with presents of rings of gold, bags of precious stones, "cameleopards, panthers, skins, and long horned cattle, whose heads are strangely ornamented with the hands and heads of negroes."

    Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

  • And then he left the upper floor of the building, after having spent two days there, through two towering cameleopards.

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • At last I saw, a little way from a grove of trees, a herd of cameleopards quietly feeding.

    In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • We saw herds of animals in the distance -- gemsboks, steinboks, gnus, and cameleopards -- but they were too far off to enable me to get a shot at any of them.

    In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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