vicuna

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small wild South American camelid of the high Andes, related to the llama and valued for its exceptionally fine fleece

   A herd of vicunas grazed on sparse grass high in the Andes.

2. 2
   noun

   the very fine wool of the vicuna, or a fabric made from it

   The museum displayed a ceremonial cloth woven from vicuna.

Borrowed from Spanish vicuna, normally written vicuña, from Quechua wik'una. English commonly uses both the accented Spanish spelling and the unaccented form.

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