Definition of Camel

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Definition of Camel

Camel

A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicu�a, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).

A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.

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Camel Quotations

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Jackie Kennedy

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
David Letterman

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
Baltasar Gracian

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
Amy Sedaris

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Adolf Hitler

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
Allan Sherman

Camel Translations

camel in Afrikaans is kameel
camel in Dutch is kemel, kameel
camel in French is chameau
camel in German is Kamel
camel in Hungarian is teve
camel in Italian is cammello
camel in Norwegian is kamel
camel in Portuguese is camelo
camel in Spanish is camello
camel in Swedish is kamel

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