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Llama

noun

Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.

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"Llama" Quotes from Famous Books

... greater or less degrees of fineness, softness and pliability of the fibres. When the fibres possess these properties so far as to admit of their being spun and woven into a texture sufficiently pliable to be used as an article of dress, they are called wool. The sheep, llama, Angora goat, and the goat of Thibet, are the animals from which most of the wool used in manufactures is obtained. The finest of all wools is that from the goat of Thibet, of which the Cashmere shawls are made. Of European wools, the finest is that yielded by the Merino sheep, the Spanish ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... what, some grilled llama wouldn't be bad with this, would it? They say that the llama is substitute for the ox and the sheep, and I should like to know if it is, ...

— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Llama" : even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, Lama peruana, alpaca, guanaco, Lama pacos, artiodactyl mammal, Lama guanicoe