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Meanings of Vicugna vicugna in English

Catalan
vicunya

Small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat.

vicunya
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Examples for "vicuna"
Examples for "vicuna"
1
President Eisenhower's chief of staff, Sherman Adams, went down for a vicuna coat.
The new yorker
2
The llama and the alpaca are domesticated; the guanaco and the vicuna run wild.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
3
Hanging from one of the hooks was a moth-eaten vicuna smoking jacket of blue.
Quill's Window
4
A tailor would have said that it was a "superb vicuna raglan sack."
The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
5
It was probably the delicate wool of the vicuna, none of which had then been seen in Europe.20
History of the Conquest of Peru
Translations for Vicugna vicugna
Catalan
vicunya