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bactrian camels

n. (Bactrian camel English)

Usage examples of "bactrian camels".

The domestic animals that were ridden were the horse, donkey, yak, reindeer, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.

We had set out through the netherworld of an industrial zone where the first Bactrian camels I had ever seen in the wild were grazing in the outer yard of a cement plant.

It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once.

Certainly it seemed an inhospitable place, but perhaps the long caravans of Bactrian camels had rested here, or perhaps it had been a crossroads, or—.

They would feed their sheep, and some very odd, knee-high, dwarf Bactrian camels.