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Vicuna

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vi·cu·ña also vi·cu·na  (v-kn, -ky-, v-, v-kny)
n.
1. A llamalike ruminant mammal (Vicugna vicugna) of the central Andes, having fine silky fleece.
2.
a. The fleece of this mammal.
b. Fabric made from the fleece of this mammal.

[Spanish, from Quechua wikuña.]
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Noun1.Vicuna - the wool of the vicunavicuna - the wool of the vicuna              
wool - fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving
2.Vicuna - a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicunavicuna - a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
3.Vicuna - small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smallervicuna - small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat
artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate - placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
genus Vicugna, Vicugna - a genus of Camelidae


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If 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.
 
 
 
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