noun

• A giraffe.

  ‘The Greeks called the giraffe a camelopard, describing the animal as possessing a camel's body but wearing a leopard's coat.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The moustache drawn on the camelopard is said to have been modeled after the moustache of Thomas Glover.’
  • ‘The camelopard has short horns, covered with hair, truncated at the end, and tufted with hair.’
  • ‘Before us stood, with their heads lifted high up, a troop of eighteen or twenty giraffes, or camelopards.’
  • ‘It is believed that the camelopard represented characteristics of both ‘parents’, namely a valiant warrior that would patiently persevere to the end.’