Camelopard

  • 81roebuck — Synonyms and related words: Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose, mule deer, musk deer,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 82springbok — Synonyms and related words: Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose, mule deer, musk deer,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 83stag — Synonyms and related words: Cape elk, Kaffeeklatsch, Virginia deer, adventurer, antelope, ball, big operator, billy, billy goat, blowout, boar, broad jumper, bubbly jock, buck, bucking bronco, buckjumper, bull, bullock, camel, camelopard, caribou …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 84animal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Any living thing not a plant Nouns 1. animal, beast, brute, creature, living thing, creeping thing, dumb animal; fauna, animal kingdom; buck, bull, bullock; doe; domestic animal, draft animal; wild… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 85Height — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Height >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 height height altitude elevation Sgm: N 1 eminence eminence pitch Sgm: N 1 loftiness loftiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 sublimity sublimity GR …

    English dictionary for students

  • 86chamelion — [14] Etymologically, a chamelion is a ‘ground lion’. The word comes from Greek khamailéōn, a compound formed from khamaí ‘on the ground’ (English humus and humble are related to it) and léōn ‘lion’. Until the 19th century the word was usually… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 87giraffe — [17] The 16th century name for the ‘giraffe’ was camelopard, a compound of camel and leopard appropriate enough in view of the animal’s long neck and leopard like spots, but in the 17th century a rival term came on the scene – giraffe. This was… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 88giraffe — 1590s, giraffa, from It. giraffa, from Arabic zarafa, probably from an African language. Earlier M.E. spellings varied wildly, depending on the source, including jarraf, ziraph, and gerfauntz, some apparently directly from Arabic, the last… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 89giraffe — n. Camelopard …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 90καμηλοπαρδάλεως — καμηλοπαρδάλεω̆ς , καμηλοπάρδαλις camelopard fem gen sg (attic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)