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Very naughty boy outside a court, having arrived with large beast
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bactrian camel
Word definitions for bactrian camel in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bactrian \Bac"tri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. -- n. A native of Bactria. Bactrian camel , the two-humped camel.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The camel with two humps, ''Camelus bactrianus'', native to the steppes of Asia
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Bactrian camel ( Camelus bactrianus ) is a large, even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of Central Asia . Of the two species of camels , it is by far the rarest. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped dromedary ...
Usage examples of bactrian camel.
Since his Bactrian camel had died, he had been on foot His guide had gone in search of water and not returned.
The three domestic camel species (Arabian camel, Bactrian camel, and llama) played a similar role in areas of North Africa and Arabia, Central Asia, and the Andes, respectively.
Two exceedingly un-Austrian creatures came to one of the fences to peer over at them: a Bactrian camel and an Indian elephant that could have been the twin to Peggy, except that this one had formidable tusks.
We had been walking in the gardens one day, and turned a corner to find the Bactrian camel advancing toward us down the path, splendid and stately in its gold and silver harness, towering in calm disdain above a crowd of gawking spectators-strikingly exotic, and utterly out of place among the formalized white statues.
As they moved across the land, and moved into a new perspective, he saw that it was doubled, like the twin humps of a Bactrian camel, and that didn't surprise him.
A few scruffy horses were grazing nearby, and a two-humped Bactrian camel lay sunning itself, its face toward the wind.
At the very outset, soon after leaving the oasis of Tchertchen, one member of the party had died from gangrene caused by the vicious bite of a Bactrian camel.
They crossed a snowy pass in cold moonlight, when the lama, mildly chaffing Kim, went through up to his knees, like a Bactrian camel - the snow-bred, shag-haired sort that came into the Kashmir Serai.
The Bactrian camel with two bunches is a valuable creature: the Arabian with but one is also a valuable creature.