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Vicuna   /vɪkjˈunə/   Listen
Vicuna

noun
1.
The wool of the vicuna.
2.
A soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna.
3.
Small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat.  Synonym: Vicugna vicugna.





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"Vicuna" Quotes from Famous Books



... we take on the one side, the elephant, [7] hippopotamus, giraffe, bos caffer, elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, capybara (after which we must choose from the monkeys to complete the number), and then place these two groups alongside each other, it is not easy to conceive ranks more disproportionate in size. After the above facts, we are compelled to conclude, against ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Vicuna" :   textile, wool, fabric, cloth, Vicugna, genus Vicugna, material, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate


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