allocamelus
English edit
Noun edit
allocamelus
- A fictional animal, apparently based on early reports of llamas, which has the head of an ass or mule and the body of a camel.
- 1769, Thomas Boreman, A description of three hundred animals ... tenth edition, page 22:
- THE ALLOCAMELUS is a Beast of Peru; it is about two Yards high, and about five Feet in length : His Head, Neck, and Ears, are like a Mule's; but his Neck as white as a Swan's, his other Parts of a yellowish Colour: His Body is like a Camel, […]
- 2007 September 3, Alison Baird, The Archons of the Stars, Aspect, →ISBN:
- There were many wondrous Arainian beasts in these groves: star-spotted pantheons, allocameli like donkey-eared dromedaries, the trogodryces whose antlers grow down rather than up, the argasills that resembled antelopes but for their […]
- 2017 April 11, D. L. Armillei, Shock of Fate: Anchoress Series Book One, Diamond Cove Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
- By late afternoon, Van's lower back and inner thighs ached from riding on the allocamelus for so long. The bindings on her wrists had turned them raw and bloody. The grandfather clock Van had seen in Uxa's office haunted her every […] Jorie's anger flared, and she released an animalistic growl so guttural it upset the allocameli tied to the trees. Some of them let out rapid, high-pitched shrieks and struggled against their binds. Others stomped their front hooves and […]
- 2020 October 16, Octavia J. Riley, Sand Dunes & Blood Moons, Poisoned Apple Publishing, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 188:
- Blythe was ahead of them all, keeping pace with Silas and one of the allocameluses he was leading. As she tied up her curls, she observed the two. There was really nothing else to look at, and she couldn't exactly converse with her […]
Further reading edit
- 2016 September 8, Leo Ruickbie, The Impossible Zoo: An encyclopedia of fabulous beasts and mythical monsters, Robinson, →ISBN:
- ALLOCAMELUS. The ass-camel described by Conrad Gessner (Hist. Anim.) in the sixteenth century. It is also found in heraldry (Elvin, Dict.), although solely in the crest of the East Land Company, incorporated in 1579.