camelopardine

comparative more camelopardine · superlative most camelopardine

1. rarePertaining to a giraffe.

   As soon as it has enten the tender and green portion of the grass, it rejects the remainder as unfit for camelopardine consumption.

   1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia, page 686

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   Nevertheless, there she was — dressed out in white satin, with a red velvet toque, and a bird-of-paradise feather, several strings of pearls set off to the greatest advantage by the white and yellow skin of her camelopardine neck, and a pair of diamond bracelets hanging loose upon either skinny arm.

   1843, George Payne Rainsford James, The Commissioner, page 201