Meanings
nouncameleopard (plural cameleopards)
plural cameleopards
- alternativeAlternative spelling of camelopard.
And first the spotted cameleopard came, / And then the wise and fearless elephant; […]
1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 31
Origin
See camelopard. In this spelling, influenced by English leopard.
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APA
cameleopard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cameleopard
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“cameleopard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cameleopard. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cameleopard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cameleopard.
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