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camelopard
camelopard (ˈkæmɪləʊˌpɑːd, kəˈmɛləpɑːd) Also 7 -e; and (erron.) 6 cameleoparde, 7–9 cameleopard; also (in Latin form) camelopardus, -pardalis, and camelopardal. [ad. L. camēlopardus, -pardalis, Gr. καµηλοπάρδαλις, f. κάµηλος camel n. + πάρδαλις pard: so Fr. camélopard. Confusion with leopard led to ...
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camelopardel
cameloˈpardel Her. [f. prec.] A heraldic animal, figured as a camelopard with the horns of an ibex.1830 in Robson Hist. Heraldry.
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Altisidora
Altisidora won the classic by a head from Lord Fitzwilliam's colt Camelopard with Tiger in third. At York in August she defeated Camelopard at level weights in a two-mile match race, earning 500 guineas for her owner.
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Julius Caesar Facts | Britannica
Caesar banned driving carriages on city streets during the first ten hours of daylight. Julius Caesar had a son with Cleopatra named Caesarion, or "little Caesar". Caesar was stabbed many times during his murder but the physician Antistius determined that only one stab wound was fatal. Caesar originally named the giraffe "camelopard" since it ...
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camelion
▪ I. † camelion Obs. Also 5 camalyon. [As a word app. the same as chameleon, but in the 14th c. taken as made up of camel + lion, and identified with camelo-pard.] A camelopard or giraffe. [Wyclif appears to have had before him a Latin text reading cameleopardalum; this he mistook for two words, ren...
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Agatharchides
Amongst other extraordinary animals he mentions the camelopard, which was found in the country of the Troglodytae, and the rhinoceros.
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giraffe
giraffe (dʒɪˈrɑːf, -æf) Forms: α. 6 gyraffa, 6–9 giraffa. β. 7 giraf(f)le, gyraff, jarraff, ziraph, 7–8 giraff, 6– giraffe. [Ultimately ad. Arab. zarāfah, whence also It. giraffa, Sp. and Pg. girafa, F. girafe; earlier adoptions of the word are found in OF. as giras (pl.), orafle and giraffle, in ME...
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Philosophie zoologique
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Lyell similarly criticises the way Lamarck supposed the antelope and gazelle acquired "light agile forms" able to run swiftly; or the "camelopard
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cynocephalus
‖ cynocephalus (sɪnəʊ-, saɪnəʊˈsɛfələs) Pl. -i. Also 5–7 anglicized cynocephale. [L., a. Gr. κυνοκέϕαλος dog-headed, the dog-faced baboon, f. κυνο- dog- + κεϕαλή head. In mod.F. cynocéphale.] 1. One of a fabled race of men with dogs' heads.c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxi. 97 Men and wymmen of þat ile ...
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Sarah Baartman
Alexander Dunlop, who, he believed, was a surgeon in the army, came to him to sell the skin of a Camelopard, which he had brought from the Cape of Good
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infusory
infusory, a. and n. (ɪnˈfjuːsərɪ) [ad. L. type *infūsōrius, f. infūs-, ppl. stem of infundĕre to pour in: see -ory.] A. adj. † 1. Of or pertaining to (surgical) infusion or injection. Obs.1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xi. 374 An Epistle..concerning Transfusion of bloud, and infusory Chirurgery. 2. ...
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List of portmanteaus
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beefalo, from beef and buffalo
Brangus, from Brahman and Angus breeds of cattle
Wangus, from Wagyu and Angus breeds of cattle
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camelopard
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