Crossword clues for camelopard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camelopard \Ca*mel"o*pard\ (k[.a]*m[e^]l"[-o]*p[aum]rd or k[a^]m"[e^]l*[-o]*p[aum]rd; 277), n. [LL. camelopardus, L. camelopardalus, camelopardalis, fr. Gr. kamhlopa`rdalis; ka`mhlos a camel + pa`rdalis pard, leopard: cf. F. cam['e]lopard. The camelopard has a neck and head like a camel, and is spotted like a pard. See Camel, and Pard.] (Zo["o]l.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A giraffe.
WordNet
n. tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa [syn: giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis]
Usage examples of "camelopard".
They are what you are before you are born, and, whether you are going to be a tadpole or a peacock or a camelopard or a man, when you are an embryo you just look like a peculiarly repulsive and helpless human being.
And there was the elephant and the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus, and the camel and the camelopard, and the serpent and the striped tiger.
Other beasts, too, roamed at their graceful will across the landscape: the ox and the wide-horned aurochs, the slouching camelopard, the corkindrill—each animal as fat as a burgher and similarly complacent.