dromedary
noun
drom·e·dary
ˈdrä-mə-ˌder-ē
also ˈdrə-,
-ˌde-rē
plural dromedaries
: the one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius) currently existing only as a domestic or feral animal
… it was only the introduction of the dromedary to North Africa about the second century A.D. that made feasible in terms of costs and risks regular caravan trade from one rim of the Western Sahara to the other.—Ross E. Dunn
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