Giraffe

Suppose you were the first person ever to see a giraffe and it was your responsibility to name it. Upon first inspection, you couldn't help noticing its long neck and then its spotted sides. Obviously it is a mammal with four feet. In some ways, it looks like a camel which has a long neck, admittedly not as long as the giraffe. And those spots on the hide of a giraffe— no camel has spots like that. In fact it looks very much like the spots on a leopard.

Thus the first Greek who named the giraffe called it "camel-leopard." The Greek word is καμηλοπάρδαλις
κάμηλος = camel
πάρδαλις = leopard

Interestingly, while the camel was ritually unclean for food, the LXX declares that the giraffe was clean, Deut 14:5. That must have confused Jews who read the LXX since, in reality, giraffes are ritually unclean.

Even the English word "leopard" is made from λέων and πάρδος (meaning "panther") and was once thought to be an offspring of a lion and panther.