Alpaca
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
(2): (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
(3): (n.) Wool of the alpaca.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A gregarious ruminant of the camel family, a native of the Andes, and particularly the tablelands of Chile and Peru; is covered with a long soft silky wool, of which textile fabrics are woven; in appearance resembles a sheep, but is larger in size, and has a long erect neck with a handsome head.