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DROMEDARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dromedary mean? 

DROMEDARY (noun)
  The noun DROMEDARY has 1 sense:

1. one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asiaplay

  Familiarity information: DROMEDARY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DROMEDARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Arabian camel; Camelus dromedarius; dromedary

Hypernyms ("dromedary" is a kind of...):

camel (cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions)


 Context examples 


Mr. Creakle's part of the house was a good deal more comfortable than ours, and he had a snug bit of garden that looked pleasant after the dusty playground, which was such a desert in miniature, that I thought no one but a camel, or a dromedary, could have felt at home in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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