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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.




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





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