Crossword clues for alpaca
alpaca
- Mammal like a camel
- Wool-bearing Peruvian
- Hair fabric
- Guanaco's kin
- Beast of the Andes
- Andean spitter
- Andean source of wool
- Woolly pack animal
- Woolly Andes grazer
- Vicuna's cousin
- Source of silky wool
- Source of fine fleece
- Silky wool producer
- Silky wool
- Llamalike mammal
- Camellike mammal
- Camel-like mammal
- Andean herd member
- Andean grazer
- Woolly petting zoo animal
- Wool-yielding pack animal
- Wool-yielding creature
- Wool or its source
- Valuable wool
- Ungulate that hums
- South American woolly beast
- South American llama relative
- South American llama
- South American fleece source
- Source of the robe material for Incan royalty
- Source of some South American wool
- Source of hypoallergenic wool
- Source for fine sweaters
- Soft, silky fleece
- Silky-wool source
- Silky-fleeced llama relative
- Shaggy South American beast
- Relative of a llama
- Poncho wool
- Peruvian wool-bearer
- Peruvian wool bearer
- Peruvian quadruped
- Mammal with a long, silky fleece
- Llama-like mammal
- Llama bred for its fleece
- Hypoallergenic wool
- Humming ungulate
- Highlands beast
- Fine wool source
- Domesticated Llama
- Domesticated hoofed mammal
- Camel-like creature
- Bolivian pack animal
- Animal with prized fiber
- Animal prized for its wool
- Andes grazer
- Andean source of fleece
- Andean relative of a camel
- Andean flock member
- Andean condor prey
- A fine wool
- ______ farm
- Woolgatherer's topic
- Woolly fabric
- Kind of wool
- Silky wool source
- Silky-fleeced animal
- Fleecy fabric
- Wool source
- Some wool
- Warm wool
- Fleecy fiber
- Llama's kin
- Domesticated llama with long silky fleece
- Believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
- Woolly Peruvian animal
- Fine wool from the Andes
- Llama's relative
- Llama's cousin
- Woolly beast
- Guanaco relative
- Woolen fabric
- Wool-producing mammal
- Guanaco cousin
- A top US city rejected source of wool
- Mountain, cold in two areas, and beast there?
- Couple from Pasadena, California, follow almost all this material
- Cloth cap in a city is retro
- Opening letter, account for hotel's animal
- Wool top pulled up in the manner of pockets
- American star wearing nothing upstaged by a furry animal
- Sick sort of film director taking concessions back
- American player not in love with a shaggy-haired creature
- A large group of hunters ending off a domesticated mammal
- Andean camelid
- Llama-like animal with a long silky fleece
- Llama-like domesticated animal, valued for its wool
- Llama relative, valued for it's wool
- Relative of the llama
- Andean animal valued for its wool
- Camel's cousin
- Camel cousin of the Andes
- Andean beast
- Llama cousin
- Camel kin
- Peruvian pack animal
- Camel's South American cousin
- Camel's kin
- Woolly mammal
- Fleece source
- Andes native
- Petting zoo animal
- Wool producer
- Llama kin
- Guanaco kin
- Wool provider
- South American wool source
- Source of fleece
- Petting-zoo animal
- Woolly animal
- Llama lookalike
- Woolly-haired mammal
- South American ruminant
- Source of fine wool
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alpaca \Al*pac"a\, n. [Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian name of the animal. Cf. Paco.]
(Zo["o]l.) An animal of Peru ( Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
Wool of the alpaca.
A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, from Spanish alpaca, probably from Aymara allpaca, related to Quechua p'ake "yellowish-red." The al- is perhaps from influence of Arabic definite article (see almond). Attested in English from 1753 in the form pacos.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sheep-like animal of the Andes, ''Vicugna pacos'', in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña. 2 (''uncountable'') wool from the alpaca.
WordNet
n. wool of the alpaca
a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the alpaca, or a rayon or cotton imitation
domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco [syn: Lama pacos]
Wikipedia
Alpaca can refer to either:
- Alpaca, the South American camelid
- Alpaca fiber, the fleece of the Alpaca
- Alpacas Orgling, an album by the pop band L.E.O.
- Alpaca silver, a silver-like alloy
An alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in appearance.
There are two breeds of alpaca; the Suri alpaca and the Huacaya alpaca.
Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Chile at an altitude of to above sea level, throughout the year. Alpacas are considerably smaller than llamas, and unlike llamas, they were not bred to be beasts of burden, but were bred specifically for their fiber. Alpaca fiber is used for making knitted and woven items, similar to wool. These items include blankets, sweaters, hats, gloves, scarves, a wide variety of textiles and ponchos in South America, and sweaters, socks, coats and bedding in other parts of the world. The fiber comes in more than 52 natural colors as classified in Peru, 12 as classified in Australia and 16 as classified in the United States.
In the textile industry, "alpaca" primarily refers to the hair of Peruvian alpacas, but more broadly it refers to a style of fabric originally made from alpaca hair, but now often made from similar fibers, such as mohair, Icelandic sheep wool, or even high-quality English wool. In trade, distinctions are made between alpacas and the several styles of mohair and luster.
An adult alpaca generally is between 81 and 99 cm in height at the withers. They usually weigh between 48 and 84 kg (106 and 185 lbs).
Usage examples of "alpaca".
She spent the rest of the afternoon in trying to decide between a black alpaca and a green cashmere dress.
The station agent, in green eyeshade and black alpaca worksleeves, leaned through the ticket window, talking to a friend.
Mrs Ross swung round so quickly that the skirt of her grey alpaca dress formed itself for a moment into a bell and it looked to Tilly as if she were about to run down the steps and across the lawn.
There was a murmur from inside the room, and presently a woman of medium height wearing a grey alpaca dress, the bodice of which seemed moulded to her thin body, stood confronting the footman, who had now taken a step back into the corridor.
In his hurry, he overlooked his new alpaca overcoat, which was hanging on a wallhook behind his back.
Still forgetful of his new alpaca overcoat, the commissioner strode from the grill room by the usual door, expecting Cardona to follow, which Joe did, with a grin.
Staid club members stared when they saw Weston stride by, huddling a wrapped package under the fancy alpaca coat that he was wearing.
While Weston was studying the lights in the grill room, Cranston took the alpaca coat and hung it on the rack in a dark corner.
Hembroke saw a stoopish man wearing an alpaca coat and kid gloves, whose eyes were owlish in round glasses that magnified their size.
He supposed that another, a stoopish man who wore dark glasses and an alpaca coat and who was leaning upon a stout cane, might be the owner of the warehouse itself.
The alpaca coat was thrown back to reveal a thinnish figure, far too small in proportion to the great head that topped its scrawny shoulders.
When she was attired in a grey alpaca dress with a cape to match, a blue straw bonnet resting on her brown hair, and a pair of black buttoned boots on her feet, she went to the top drawer of the chest and took out the long envelope and looked at it.
He stuck his hands in his alpaca pockets and leaned back against the railing.
Near the front of the audience, a youngish man in an alpaca cardigan and hopsack slacks sprang to his feet.
Why should they think such things, when they had always had around them four-legged beasts of burden such as llamas and alpacas and vicunas, unless they had been encouraged and inflamed to think differently?