Alpaca

Quick meaning: Alpaca is a noun meaning A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.

Meaning

A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
2. A garment made of such wool.

Example Sentences

A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.

The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?

Word Forms

• alpacas

Synonyms for alpaca

Depending on context, synonyms include alpaco, paco.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vicuna, guanaco, lamoid, huanaco, camelid, vicugna.

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