VICUNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vicuna mean? 

• VICUNA (noun)
  The noun VICUNA has 3 senses:

1. the wool of the vicuna

2. a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna

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

  Familiarity information: VICUNA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICUNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The wool of the vicuna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("vicuna" is a kind of...):

wool (fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("vicuna" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Vicugna vicugna; vicuna

Hypernyms ("vicuna" is a kind of...):

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Holonyms ("vicuna" is a member of...):

genus Vicugna; Vicugna (a genus of Camelidae)