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発音

• IPA: /ælˈpækə/
• 韻: -ækə

名詞

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:

     Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?

2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
   • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company:

     A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.

3. A garment made of such wool.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

同意語

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

等位語

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña

派生語

派生した語

• → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
• → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

Further reading

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies