camelopard

Questions about camelopard

What does camelopard mean?

camelopard means "tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa".

How many syllables are in camelopard?

camelopard has 4 syllables and divides as ca-me-lo-pard under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for camelopard?

Close synonyms include giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camelopard a common word?

camelopard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.