Definition of Camelidae

1. Noun. Camels and llamas and vicunas.

Exact synonyms: Family Camelidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Camelus, Genus Camelus, Genus Lama, Lama, Genus Vicugna, Vicugna

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camelidae

Cambrian period
Cambrians
Cambridge
Cambridge University
Cambridge blue
Cambro-
Cambro-Briton
Cambro-Britons
Cambs
Cambyses
Camden
Camdenite
Camdenites
CamelCase
Camelidae (current term)
Camelina
Camelina sativa
Camellia State
Camellia japonica
Camellia sinensis
Camelopardalis
Camelot
Camelus
Camelus bactrianus
Camelus dromedarius
Camembert
Cameron
Cameronian
Cameronians

Literary usage of Camelidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"... Gid- ley *) and a doubtful Pliohippus, the Camelidae by ... The collateral lines of Camelidae, so far as we know, died out, and the adaptive ..."

2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1870)
"Excepting Camelidae, the Ruminantia have no incisors in the upper jaw, but in nearly all cases eight in the lower, which shut against a callous pad above. ..."

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