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Definition of Llama
1. Noun. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
Specialized synonyms: Domestic Llama, Lama Peruana, Guanaco, Lama Guanicoe, Alpaca, Lama Pacos
Definition of Llama
1. n. A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.
Definition of Llama
1. Noun. (zoology) A South American mammal of the camel family, ''Lama glama'', used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Llama
1. a ruminant mammal [n -S]
Medical Definition of Llama
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Llama
Literary usage of Llama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1892)
"The llama herds, laden with merchandise, are taken to the hot lowlands, ...
Like the huanaco, the llama thrives best at from 10000 to 13000 feet elevation: ..."
2. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"THE llama Hilaire Belloc. THE llama is a woolly sort of fleecy, hairy goat, With
an indolent expression and an undulating throat, Like an unsuccessful ..."
3. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1892)
"The llama, in its wild state called the ... is a The llama native of all the cold
regions of South America, and is Of its'dcJ 1 I ..."
4. Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1900)
"But from the llama and the kindred species of the Peruvian sheep they obtained a
... 1 Of the four varieties of the Peruvian sheep, the llama, the one most ..."
5. History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott, John Foster Kirk (1893)
"Yet the ancient Peruvians seem to have made much less account of it than their
Spanish conquerors, and to have valued the llama, in common with the other ..."
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