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Definition of Camelid
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuña. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Camelid
1. any of a family of 2-toed ruminant mammals [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camelid
Literary usage of Camelid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal (1843)
"BLOOD CORPUSCLES OP THE camelid^E. for me to continue for the present my general
prac tice, ... BLOOD CORPUSCLES AND SPERMATOZOA OF THE camelid^i. After II. ..."
2. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"camelid^. Nose produced. Upper lip dependent, naked in front, and entirely covered
with hair. ... camelid ..."
3. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina by Albert E. Sanders (2002)
"Roth and Laerm ( 1980) reported four camelid limb elements in the ChM ... In 1979
the proximal end of a phalanx displaying camelid affinities was found by a ..."
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