n.1 either of two kinds of large cud-chewing mammals having slender cushion-footed legs and one hump (Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius) or two humps (Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus).
2 a fawn colour.
3 an apparatus for providing additional buoyancy to ships etc.
Phrases and idioms:
camel (or camel's) -hair
1. the hair of a camel.
2 a a fine soft hair used in artists' brushes. b a fabric made of this.
Etymology: OE f. L camelus f. Gk kamelos, of Semitic orig.