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CAMEL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("camel" is a kind of...):

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camel"):

Arabian camel; Camelus dromedarius; dromedary (one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia)

Bactrian camel; Camelus bactrianus (two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia)

Holonyms ("camel" is a member of...):

Camelus; genus Camelus (type genus of the Camelidae: camels)

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