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Definition of Camelids
1. camelid [n] - See also: camelid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camelids
Literary usage of Camelids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biotechnology: Building on Farmers' Knowledge by Joske F. G. Bunders, Bertus Haverkort, Wim Hiemstra (1996)
"Even when hard-nosed economics would seem to dictate slaughter, they will spare
no expense to try to save one of their precious camelids. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The camelids, whose now living members are as isolated as the tapirs, are likewise
capable of withstanding much cold as well as heat. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"the least improbable that these ants. like the South-American species of Didelphys,
deer, camelids, and mastodons, are of North-American origin. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"... probably soon to be aborted, as is the case in later genera of the line, among
the camelids. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1843)
"... Signs of Contraction of the left Auriculo- Ventricular Orifice Spermatozoa of
the camelids, .... 460 of the Heart, . . . . ib. ..."
6. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina by Albert E. Sanders (2002)
"... and stragglers from the herds of bison, horses, and camelids that roamed the
grasslands. Panthern onca augusta and Puma concolor probably stalked ..."
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