单词 | camelopard |
释义 | camelopard (once / 62869 pages) n WORD FAMILY camelopard: camelopards USAGE EXAMPLESNot until the seventeenth century did the English, who fixated on the giraffe’s camel-ish shape and leopard-ish coloring, stop calling it a camelopard. The New Yorker(May 17, 2016) The classic term “camelopard,” probably introduced when these animals were brought from North Africa to the Roman amphitheatre, has fallen into complete disuse. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) As well try to turn camelopards into crocodiles or pythons into hippos, as convert Africans into Europeans. Leonard, Arthur Glyn, Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value...(2011) n tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa Syn|Hypo|Hyper Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe Okapia johnstoni, okapi similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs ruminant any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments |
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