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Webster 1913 Edition

Camelopard

Ca-mel′o-pard

(kȧ-mĕl′ō̍-pärd or kăm′ĕl-ō̍-pärd; 277)
,
Noun.
[LL.
camelopardus
, L.
camelopardalus
,
camelopardalis
, fr. Gr.
καμηλοπάρδαλις
;
κάμηλοσ
a camel +
πάρδαλισ
pard, leopard: cf. F.
camélopard
. The camelopard has a neck and head like a camel, and is spotted like a pard. See
Camel
, and
Pard
.]
(Zool.)
An African ruminant; the
giraffe
. See
Giraffe
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Camelopard

CAMELOPARD

,
Noun.
[camelus and pardalis.] The giraff, a species constituting the genus Camelopardalis. This animal has two straight horns, without branches, six inches long, covered with hair, truncated at the end and tufted. On the forehead, is a tubercle, two inches high, resembling another horn. The fore legs are not much longer than the hind ones, but the shoulders are of such a vast length, as to render the fore part of the animal much higher than the hind part. The head is like that of a stag; the neck is slender and elegant, furnished with a short mane. The color of the whole animal is a dirty white marked with large broad rusty spots. This animal is found in the central and eastern parts of Africa. It is timid and not fleet.

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