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Llama

//ˈlɑː.mə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
  2. 2
    Archaic form of lama. alt-of, archaic

    "He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking."

  3. 3
    wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

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