camelus

Updated: May 13, 2025

None of these attain the gigantic proportions of the African, nor are their plumes at all comparable in beauty or value to those of the Struthio Camelus. Ostriches were once a favourite article of food with the Romans; and it is stated that the brains of six hundred of these birds were consumed at one feast. The flesh is still eaten, but only by the native Africans.

Mayne Reid - The Giraffe Hunters

You know that this animal, which is of the genus Camelus, lives in South America, where it is to the natives what the camel is to the Arab; that is to say, it provides them with milk, wool, and meat, and is used by them, moreover, for driving and riding.

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

The animal thus described by Pigafetta is the Guanaco, Camelus huanacus, and it is not astonishing to find it represented on the Australian continent, for we know* that this continent was supposed to be connected with Tierra del Fuego and was sometimes called Magellanica, in consequence.

George Collingridge - The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea : Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.

And where our Saviour saith himself, "It is more easy for a camel" or, as some say, "for a great cable rope," for "camelus" so signifieth in the Greek tongue "to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." No marvel, now, if good folk who fear God take occasion of great dread at so dreadful words, when they see the worldly goods fall to them.

Sir Thomas More - Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation: With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens

They are clothed with a kind of prickly stubble, which is neither down nor feathers, and which probably defends them from the coarse vegetation and gravel which covers the region where they exist. The Romans called the ostrich the Struthio camelus, in consequence of its resemblance in many respects to the camel of the desert.

William Henry Giles Kingston - In the Wilds of Africa

Some of the names of the commonest animals are lost in the dimness of antiquity, such as fox, weasel, sheep, dog, and baboon. Of the origin of these we have forever lost the clew. With camel we can go no farther back than the Latin word camelus, and elephant balks us with the old Hindoo word eleph, which means an ox.

William Beebe - The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year