Alpaca: Definition and part of speech

Alpaca

  1. n. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
  2. n. An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
  3. n. Wool of the alpaca.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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