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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] 2. Wool of the alpaca. [1913 Webster] 3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. [1913 Webster]
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]