different between dromedary vs bactrian

English

Etymology

From Middle English dromedari, dromedarie (“dromedary; any camel”) [and other forms], from Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromed?rius (“kind of camel”), from Latin *dromad?rius, from dromas, dromadis (“dromedary”) + -?rius (suffix forming nouns denoting agents of use). Dromas and dromadis are derived from Ancient Greek ??????? (dromás, “running; dromedary”), an ellipsis of ?????? ??????? (dromàs kám?los, “running camel”), from ?????? (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??m?d??i/, /?d??m?d?i/, /?dr?-/, /-m?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??m??d??i/
• Hyphenation: drom?e?da?ry

Noun

dromedary (plural dromedaries)

1. The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).

   Synonyms: Arabian camel, dromedarian, dromedary camel, Somali camel
2. Any swift riding camel.

Usage notes

The dromedary was formerly known by a number of different binomial names:

• Camelus aegyptiacus Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus africanus Gloger, 1841
• Camelus arabicus Charles Desmoulins, 1823
• Camelus dromas Peter Simon Pallas, 1811
• Camelus dromos Kerr, 1792
• Camelus ferus Falk,1786
• Camelus lukius Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus polytrichus Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus turcomanichus Johann Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
• Camelus vulgaris Kolenati, 1847

Alternative forms

• dromedarie (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• camel

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Derived terms

• dromedarian
• dromedarist

Translations

See also

• ship of the desert

References

Further reading

• dromedary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dromedary in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)