Difference between revisions of "Alpaca"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_85337" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_85337" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. </p> <p> (2): (n.) An animal of [[Peru]] (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. </p> <p> (3): (n.) [[Wool]] of the alpaca. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) [[A]] thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) An animal of [[Peru]] (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) [[Wool]] of the alpaca. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67540" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67540" /> == | ||
<p> 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. </p> | <p> [[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. </p> | ||
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Revision as of 00:37, 13 October 2021
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.
