A one-humped camel. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Therefore for each resting-place there are two one-humped camels to carry all things necessary for your night's sojourn.". From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
One red brown and one-humped, packed with a seemingly huge load which in reality it hardly felt, and two Bactrian or two-humped, pacing dromedaries of. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
"Why one-humped?" asked the girl, who was of an inquiring turn of mind, and was getting slightly mixed with her first endeavour to grasp something of Eastern life. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
I hesitated a moment before I picked up the receiver, hoping that standing up would give a new perspective on what at that point in my life was my greatest problem: whether I should go with a one-humped camel or a two. From Wordnik.com. [Hoopi Shoopi Donna] Reference
There are one-humped camels and two-humped camels. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"The one-humped beggar is not easy to ride, any how!" said Grady. From Wordnik.com. [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference
With the bundle on his back, the pony looked like an enormous one-humped camel. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
Riegler said people are always surprised by the sweet personalities of the hulking, one-humped camels, even the 1,500-pound bull. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
Camelus dromedarius (the one-humped camel), and instead of making the most of this bizarre national gift, we're simply turning our backs on them. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The species of camel which was in common use among the Jews and the heathen nations of Palestine was the Arabian or one-humped camel, Camelus arabicus. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
She curved her back up in the middle like a one-humped camel, plunged down behind and reared in front, at the same time keeping her legs as stiff as stilts. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
At the head of these was a one-humped camel with white hair, one of the first which they had caught in the desert, next two rhinoceroses, a herd of horses, and a tame lion caged. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
The female one-humped camel was born on April 8, created from cells harvested from the ovary of an adult she-camel which were grown in culture before being frozen in liquid nitrogen. From Wordnik.com. [unbelieveable stuff] Reference
It had been a long night, silence ruled in the truck and as we sped along, I looked out the passenger window to see a one-humped camel wandering along a forsaken ridge in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
Hailing from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, they brought with them a great understanding of arid lands, as well as the 20,000 one-humped dromedaries needed to carry out the gruelling work. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Barley ... and straw -- Straw is not used for litter, but barley mixed with chopped straw is the usual fodder of horses. dromedaries -- one-humped camels, distinguished for their great fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The chance to amend the state's "clean list" of legal animals -- which currently includes one-humped camels and chimpanzees, but not Earl -- comes only once every four years, according to the Division of Wildlife Conservation. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News] Reference
(A second, rival camel dairy in the Emirates has no current plans for export.) "We just want to spread the news about camel milk," said the younger Wernery, whose office is around the corner from two skeletons of the one-humped local camel and its two-hump cousin in central Asia. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
There’s a reference to the “rear hump” of a camel – two-humped Bactrian camels are only found in Asia; in Arabia, they have one-humped Dromedaries. From Wordnik.com. [The first readings & watchings of 2010 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference
“Dalúl” in Arabia), not the one-humped camel of the zoologist (C. dromedarius) as opposed to the two-humped (C. Bactrianus), but a running i.e. a riding camel. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"The one-humped or, as we say, the Dyemal-mai, which means water-camel, although they cannot carry so heavy a load as the Bactrian, can go even up to eight or nine days without water. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
The one-humped camel is found in. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
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