Origin: Latin suffix -ary
Dromedary has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).
The word comes from the Old French dromedaire, which was borrowed from Late Latin. It originally referred to a specific kind of camel by combining a root meaning "dromedary" with a suffix indicating an agent or type.