Alpaca

Webster's Dictionary

(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

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.