(idiomatic) A small and seemingly insignificant addition to a burden that renders it too much to bear; the small thing which causes failure, or causes inability or unwillingness to endure any more of something.

(idiomatic) Hyperbole to illustrate something that is almost impossible to do or to make happen.

An expression critical of committees — which by analogy can extend to both group decision-making as well as abstract or unrelated managerialism — by emphasizing the weaknesses of incorporating too many conflicting and inexperienced opinions into a single project. The distinguishing features of a camel, including its humps, plate-shaped feet, habitual spitting, strange shape and poor temperament, are treated as the sort of deformities that typify a conflicted, or overly idealistic, design process.

Alternative form of a camel is a horse designed by a committee

Alternative form of a camel is a horse designed by a committee

(idiomatic) Alternative form of the straw that broke the camel's back

It is unlikely that the wealthy will go to heaven.

Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.

(typography, often used in programming) The style of writing by concatenating multiple component words, (i.e., writing without any space between them), while capitalizing the first letter of each word, starting with the first or the second word.

(astronomy) A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.