camelopard

(kə melə pärd′)

noun

Origin: LL camelopardus < L camelopardalus < Gr kamēlopardalis < kamēlos, camel + pardalis, pard, leopard: so called from neck (like a camel's) and spots (like a pard's)

See camelopard in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A giraffe.
  2. Heraldry A bearing resembling a giraffe but represented with long curved horns.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Medieval Latin camēlopardus

Origin: , from Latin camēlopardalis

Origin: , from Greek kamēlopardalis

Origin: : kamēlos, camel; see camel

Origin: + pardalis, pard (so called because the giraffe has a head like a camel's and the spots of a leopard)

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