alpaca Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wool of the alpaca
  2. noun a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool
  3. noun domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
    Lama pacos.

WordNet

Al*pac"a noun
Etymology
Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian name of the animal. Cf. Paco.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
  2. Wool of the alpaca.
  3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

Webster 1913