Camel
noun
A large animal with a long neck and one or two humps on its back, used in deserts for carrying goods and people.
Caravans of camels were used to cross the desert.
Often appears as...
- desert camel
- dromedary camel
noun
The color of a camel's hair, a light yellowish brown.
She wore a stylish camel coat.
Often appears as...
- camel coat
- camel hair
noun
A yoga pose that involves kneeling and bending backward.
Richard can do the camel pose perfectly.
Often appears as...
- camel pose
- practice camel
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noun
A large animal with a long neck and one or two humps on its back, used in deserts for carrying goods and people.
Caravans of camels were used to cross the desert.
Often appears as...
- desert camel
- dromedary camel
noun
The color of a camel's hair, a light yellowish brown.
She wore a stylish camel coat.
Often appears as...
- camel coat
- camel hair
noun
A yoga pose that involves kneeling and bending backward.
Richard can do the camel pose perfectly.
Often appears as...
- camel pose
- practice camel
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Transport Association
Often associated with desert transport and ancient trade routes.
The Silk Road famously featured the use of camels.
Pro Tip 2/3Stereotypical Deserts
Commonly found in media depicting deserts, oasis, or Middle Eastern culture.
Films set in the Sahara frequently showcase camels.
Pro Tip 3/3Two Main Types
Distinguish between the one-humped dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian camel.
Bactrian camels endure cold deserts, unlike dromedaries.
Pro Tip 1/3Transport Association
Often associated with desert transport and ancient trade routes.
The Silk Road famously featured the use of camels.
Pro Tip 2/3Stereotypical Deserts
Commonly found in media depicting deserts, oasis, or Middle Eastern culture.
Films set in the Sahara frequently showcase camels.
Pro Tip 3/3Two Main Types
Distinguish between the one-humped dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian camel.
Bactrian camels endure cold deserts, unlike dromedaries.
Pro Tip 1/3Transport Association
Often associated with desert transport and ancient trade routes.
The Silk Road famously featured the use of camels.
Pro Tip 2/3Stereotypical Deserts
Commonly found in media depicting deserts, oasis, or Middle Eastern culture.
Films set in the Sahara frequently showcase camels.
Pro Tip 3/3Two Main Types
Distinguish between the one-humped dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian camel.
Bactrian camels endure cold deserts, unlike dromedaries.
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George Steinmetz: Seeing...
see the forces that that shape the desert you understand it much better um you can also get pictures of people in wildlife that aren't running away from you I spent about five or six flights trying to photograph camel caravans and finally I was lucky when I was in the air caravans pass each other in opposite directions this is going out to get salt
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The biology of our best...
with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have invented what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly, centuries later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
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How not to be ignorant...
As I go forward, what has changed, the world population has grown, and the humps start to merge. The lower humps merged with the upper hump, and the camel dies and we have a dromedary world with one hump only. The percent in poverty has decreased. Still it's appalling
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Alone Across the Outback...
no traffic lights, there were no street lights, no buildings and so the clarity of the heavens were just amazing there. And she said on one of these trips, and I was actually there when this happened She was travelling with the camels, she was in a really good mood,
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Why our IQ levels are...
And he said, "Well, maybe it's a small village, and there's no room for camels." In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical,
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Surprising Photo: Camel...
delightful ways I've found to seek and find abstraction and mysteries from the air I love just getting up from a new angle looking at things from a completely different perspective and then sometimes you'll bump into a big surprise where you've got camels
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You have no idea where...
What if that hump -- which, huge news to me, does not contain water, it contains fat -- was there to help the camel get through that six-month-long winter, when food was scarce? And then, only later, long after it crossed over the land bridge
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Spotting the camel...
well the commonly known as camel spiders or some spiders scientifically they are called Soloff ug solitudes arachnids that are distantly related to scorpions spiders mites and ticks they're little known as they are rarely seen generally
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The One MILLION Dollar...
richest sports in the world the winner of this race stands to win a million dollars the prize money at stake means that 21st century camel racing has moved far beyond anything these camel handlers grandparents could have imagined
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The science of milk -...
and even cats, males can also lactate. Milk drinkers worldwide consume dairy from buffalo, goats, sheeps, camels, yaks, horses, and cows. Almost all of these species are ruminants,
Video examples
George Steinmetz: Seeing...
see the forces that that shape the desert you understand it much better um you can also get pictures of people in wildlife that aren't running away from you I spent about five or six flights trying to photograph camel caravans and finally I was lucky when I was in the air caravans pass each other in opposite directions this is going out to get salt
Video examples
The biology of our best...
with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have invented what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly, centuries later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
Video examples
How not to be ignorant...
As I go forward, what has changed, the world population has grown, and the humps start to merge. The lower humps merged with the upper hump, and the camel dies and we have a dromedary world with one hump only. The percent in poverty has decreased. Still it's appalling
Video examples
Alone Across the Outback...
no traffic lights, there were no street lights, no buildings and so the clarity of the heavens were just amazing there. And she said on one of these trips, and I was actually there when this happened She was travelling with the camels, she was in a really good mood,
Video examples
Why our IQ levels are...
And he said, "Well, maybe it's a small village, and there's no room for camels." In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical,
Video examples
Surprising Photo: Camel...
delightful ways I've found to seek and find abstraction and mysteries from the air I love just getting up from a new angle looking at things from a completely different perspective and then sometimes you'll bump into a big surprise where you've got camels
Video examples
You have no idea where...
What if that hump -- which, huge news to me, does not contain water, it contains fat -- was there to help the camel get through that six-month-long winter, when food was scarce? And then, only later, long after it crossed over the land bridge
Video examples
Spotting the camel...
well the commonly known as camel spiders or some spiders scientifically they are called Soloff ug solitudes arachnids that are distantly related to scorpions spiders mites and ticks they're little known as they are rarely seen generally
Video examples
The One MILLION Dollar...
richest sports in the world the winner of this race stands to win a million dollars the prize money at stake means that 21st century camel racing has moved far beyond anything these camel handlers grandparents could have imagined
Video examples
The science of milk -...
and even cats, males can also lactate. Milk drinkers worldwide consume dairy from buffalo, goats, sheeps, camels, yaks, horses, and cows. Almost all of these species are ruminants,
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Mary J. Blige
American Musician
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
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John Waters
Director
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
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Jesus Christ
Leader
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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George W. Bush
American President
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.
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The Iron Sheik
Iranian Wrestler
John Cena I respect, but he know he never get out of my camel clutch and I can break his back.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Robyn Davidson
Australian Writer
There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
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William John Wills
English Scientist
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
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Jackie Kennedy
American First Lady
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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Mukul Dev
Indian Actor
Riding a camel was a challenge.
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Mary J. Blige
American Musician
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
Quote examples
John Waters
Director
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
Quote examples
Jesus Christ
Leader
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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George W. Bush
American President
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.
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The Iron Sheik
Iranian Wrestler
John Cena I respect, but he know he never get out of my camel clutch and I can break his back.
Quote examples
Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Quote examples
Robyn Davidson
Australian Writer
There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
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William John Wills
English Scientist
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
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Jackie Kennedy
American First Lady
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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Mukul Dev
Indian Actor
Riding a camel was a challenge.
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