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Answer for the clue "Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump ", 5 letters:
llama

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woolly-haired South American ruminant, c.1600, from Spanish llama (1535), from Quechua (Peru) llama .

Usage examples of llama.

But Koku, thrusting the little men aside, grasped with one hand what two of them had tried in vain to lift, and set it on the back of mule or llama.

He wore clothes a Terran history buff would favor for the visit: scrape, jacket and trousers of imitation llama and vicuna, and rope-soled sandals.

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?

Here an Amsterdammer, it seemed, was an Indian from the Peruvian uplands, plus blanket and llama.

Castilian descent, who had driven to the ceremony in shiny American limousines, to stocky brown Aymaran Indians from far back in the Andes mountains, who probably had come to town driving a string of llamas.

Eschewing any professional jealousy at their success, a proud Martin Har-bos presented them with a double-spouted, unbroken Chimu pot iri the shape of a llama.

Eschewing any professional jealousy at their success, a proud Martin Harbos presented them with a double-spouted, unbroken Chimu pot in the shape of a llama.

Phyllis knew a llama when she saw one, but it was fun to see the goatlike, camel-like appearance of one up close.

The existing alpacas and llamas of South America are but varieties of the camel family.

Of course there are the llamas and alpacas, which are the beasts of burden--almost like little camels you might say, though much more gentle.

The journey was to be made in part by rail, though the last stages of it were over a rough mountain trail, with llamas for beasts of burden, while our friends rode mules.

And the trip must be made on mules, with llamas as beasts of burden, transporting the powder and other supplies.

Several mules and llamas, laden with the new explosive, and burdened with camp equipment and food, and a few Indian servants made up the cavalcade of Tom, the contractor, Mr.

Alain and Gwyneth planned to bide at court for about two months, coming back to Wykston in time for Llamas in August.

At court a month now, they needed to return to Wykston as Llamas would soon be upon them and after that harvest time.