alpaca

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Today I went to another market with my teacher and saw some of the beautiful things that the locals make; its a lot of products made from alpaca and baby alpaca, which is very soft.

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  1. noun A domesticated South American mammal (Lama pacos), related to the llama and having fine, long wool.
  2. noun The silky wool of this mammal.
  3. noun Cloth made from alpaca.

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  • Today I went to another market with my teacher and saw some of the beautiful things that the locals make; its a lot of products made from alpaca and baby alpaca, which is very soft. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • They also make excellent guard animals for smaller beasts, such as alpaca or sheep. —  Boing Boing
  • "I've got something to say about that to my nephew Mr Clayhanger searched in a pocket of his alpaca, and drew forth an open envelope Here's the lad's report, auntie," said he. —  Clayhanger
  • Among the main exceptions are the llama and alpaca, the domestic wool-bearing animals of the camel family, and kindred varieties, which do not exist in Mexico, nor are found anywhere in the world outside the highlands of Peru and Bolivia. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
  • She thought that their excuses one to the other would be very comic She was wearing the black lace scarf instead of a hat; it went well with the grey alpaca, and under it was her fair hair; and when she got up to go to the organ loft after the sermon, she felt that the old ladies and the bicyclists were already wondering who she was. —  Evelyn Innes
 

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  1. American Spanish, from Aymara allpaca.

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  1. Formerly also alpaco, from Spanish alpaca, alpaco, from Arabic al, the (see al), + Peruvian paco, native name of the animal.
 

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