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Monday, May 30, 2005

Camelopard




ca·mel·o·pard
n.

1. A giraffe.
2. Heraldry. A bearing resembling a giraffe but represented with long curved horns.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin camēlopardus, from Latin camēlopardalis, from Greek kamēlopardalis : kamēlos, camel; see camel + pardalis, pard (so called because the giraffe has a head like a camel's and the spots of a leopard).]

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