vicuña
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See also vicuna
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[edit] Etymology
From Spanish vicuña, from Quechuan wikúña.
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[edit] Noun
vicuña (plural vicuñas)
- A South American hoofed mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.
- 2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27,
- It has been suggested that harvesting reduces the pressure for illegal hunting by providing communities that benefit from vicuña management with incentives to protect the animals over which they have rights.
- 2009, Jason Wilson, The Andes: A Cultural History, page 12,
- Vicuña hide was so precious that by the early 1930s, these animals—wild relatives of the llama and alpaca—were threatened with extinction, according to Tschiffely […] .
- 2010, Neil Edward Schlecht, Frommer′s Peru, page 335,
- Vicuñas are the smallest members of the camelid family, as well as the most prized and endangered.
- 2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27,
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- (Binomial name): Lama vicugna, Vicugna vicugna
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vicuña
[edit] Spanish
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- IPA: /biˈkuɲa/
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vicuña f. (plural vicuñas)
