llama vs alpaca
llama
Definitions
noun
- wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
Examples
The llama is related to the camel.
The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama.
alpaca
Definitions
noun
- wool of the alpaca
- a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool
- domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
Examples
For two days, we climbed towards Akhamani, the Kallawayas' sacred mountain, its lower slopes verdant, carpeted with terraces and grazed by llamas, alpacas and sheep.
He works in the craft business there, making rugs from alpaca.
(Basic, but all very pretty; the first two are baby alpaca in jewel tones, and the headband is sari silk.)
