CAMEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camel mean? 

• CAMEL (noun)
  The noun CAMEL has 1 sense:

1. cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camel"):

Arabian camel; Camelus dromedarius; dromedary (one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia)

Bactrian camel; Camelus bactrianus (two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia)

Holonyms ("camel" is a member of...):

Camelus; genus Camelus (type genus of the Camelidae: camels)

 Context examples 

Phelboviruses are mosquito-borne and humans, ruminants and camels are natural hosts.

(Phlebovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

It was Eliezer and Rebecca: the camels only were wanting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th Foot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)