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# dromedary

«dromedary» in Mova's school dictionary: **A camel with one hump, found in North Africa, the Middle…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dromedary, dromedaries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A camel with one hump, found in North Africa, the Middle East and India, and also living wild in central Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#m1)

2) (old use) A fast camel bred for riding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: dromedaries are adapted to the desert — their hump stores fat (not water), they have wide feet for sand and can go days without drinking. The Bactrian camel has two humps. Memory trick: a capital D lies on its side with one hump; a capital B has two.

### examples

- A dromedary has one hump on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x1)
- Dromedaries can walk for days without water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x2)
- Australia has many wild dromedaries in the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x3)
- We rode a dromedary at the desert camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x4)
- The Bactrian camel has two humps, but the dromedary has only one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x5)
- The dromedary's hump is full of fat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x6)
- Let him be bound and placed on a dromedary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/#x7)

### note

Plural «dromedaries» (y → ies). Myth: the hump does not hold water; it stores fat. Said «DROM-uh-dair-ee» (UK «DROM-uh-dree»).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dromedary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromedary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.