Alpaca : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Alpaca	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Alpaca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alpaca n wool of the alpaca a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco Synonym(s): alpaca, Lama pacos
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alpaca \Al*pac"a\, n. [Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian name of the animal. Cf. {Paco}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) An animal of Peru ({Lama paco}), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. 2. Wool of the alpaca. 3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.