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one-humped

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Adj.1.one-humped - having one hump; "a one-humped camel"


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Turning to the story of the Turks, he focuses on the lucrative but temperature-sensitive industry of cross-breeding one-humped and two-humped camels.
Australia's government has set aside Au10 million ($16 million) to address the growing problem of the one-humped Camelus dromedarius which were brought to Australia in 1840 from India and Palestine as an ideal means of transporting heavy goods through the nation's arid heartland, contributing significantly to developing Australia's dry interior.
They concluded that the one-humped dromedary that the Army had tried to use was the wrong type of camel.
 
 
 
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