What Is a Llama?
Oxford American Dictionary:
llama - a South American animal related to the camel but with no hump, kept as a beast of burden and for its soft woolly hair.
New Webster's Expanded Dictionary:
llama - A South American ruminating animal allied to the camel, but smaller and without a hump.
www.dictionary.com:
llama -
1. A domesticated South American ruminant mammal (Lama glama) related to the camel, raised for its soft, fleecy wool and used as a beast of burden.
2. Any of various other mammals of the genus Lama, such as the alpaca and guanaca.
llama - A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.
llama - wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.

Image from http://www.eskimo.com/~wallama.
They have fun llamas.
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