guanaco

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The guanaco, which is common throughout South America, was used by the ancient Peruvians, in great numbers, as a beast of burden.

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  1. noun A reddish-brown South American ruminant mammal (Lama guanicoe) related to and resembling the domesticated llama.

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  • Several tour operators, including REI Adventures and Classic Journeys, offer hiking trips through Argentinean Patagonia, where the grasslands are home to unique species like the guanaco, rhea and gray fox. —  CANOE Travel Features
  • The Rare Animal Range is home to deer and guanaco, a South American relative of the llama. —  DigTriad.com - Top News
  • These were the `guanaco' and `vicuna Up to a very late period the guanaco was believed to be the llama in its wild state, and by some the llama run wild. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • When we go farther south, in the direction of Patagonia, we find other tribes who subsist principally upon the guanaco, the vicuna, and the rhea or South-American ostrich Hunting the vicuna is by no means an easy calling. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • Often for days and even weeks, he would range the mountains without killing a single head--either vicuna or guanaco, and only twice before had he succeeded in thus making a battue of a whole herd. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
 

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  1. Spanish, from Quechua huanaco.

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  1. Also huanaco, huanaca; South American name.
 

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/gwɑˈnɑkoʊ/
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