from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
alpaca
n 1: wool of the alpaca
2: a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or
made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool
3: domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a
domesticated variety of the guanaco [syn: {alpaca}, {Lama
pacos}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alpaca \Al*pac"a\, n. [Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian
name of the animal. Cf. {Paco}.]
1. (Zool.) An animal of Peru ({Lama paco}), having long,
fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated
variety of the llama.
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2. Wool of the alpaca.
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3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca,
often mixed with silk or with cotton.
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