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Definition of Camelus dromedarius
1. Noun. One-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camelus Dromedarius
Literary usage of Camelus dromedarius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"... slender muscles that take their origin from the [anterior commissure of the
sphincter ani]. [Family CAMELID^E.] OF THE CAMEL [Camelus dromedarius, L.]. ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"CAMELUS DROMAS. Syn. of Camellia dromedarius. Camelus dromedarius. ... Eng. Сус.
See Camel. CAMELUS MINIMUS. Syn. of Camelus dromedarius. ..."
3. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"THE DROMEDARY, (Camelus dromedarius,) ANOTHER species of Camel, of less stature
than the former, but much swifter, and having but one ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"... with a single hump, Camelus dromedarius. As our camel is furnished with but
one hamp, it belongs to the last species ; and Professor. ..."
5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1875)
"In one of the two Camel* in the Edinburgh College of Surgeons Museum (camelus
dromedarius) the foramen is present on the right side, and I noticed it ..."
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