llama

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Roosters, pheasants and a llama were among the animals transported to USPCA shelters.

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  1. noun A domesticated South American ruminant mammal (Lama glama) related to the camel, raised for its soft, fleecy wool and used as a beast of burden.
  2. noun Any of various other mammals of the genus Lama, such as the alpaca and guanaca.

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  • The barn held five animals (besides us)—a llama, a cow, a goat, and two chickens. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Perhaps Inka had some topographical or resource advantages, such as the llama, a beast of burden which, though slight by Old World standards, was more than Yingzhou had. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • He'd gone for a llama, because he'd always thought they were cute. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • We had a petting zoo, three goats, one llama, a parrot named Parody, a dog named Chowder, and a monkey named Monkeyshines, but Monkeyshines bit and couldn't be let loose among the tourists no matter how much simple pleasure it would have given me to do so We immortals didn't leave Always much. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2007
  • The drama llama was saddled, ridden hard, put away wet, and trotted out again and again. —  Holidailies 2008
 

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  1. Spanish, from Quechua.

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  1. Also lama and glama as the L. generic or specific name; from Peruvian llama.
 

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/ˈlɑmə/
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