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llama
/ˈlɑmə/
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What does llama mean?
noun
- A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
- (slang) A firearm, especially a handgun.
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noun
- (archaic) Archaic form of lama.
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/ˈlɑmə/
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‘A la cama llama Blanda Donde Sornan en poblado A la Fresada Vellosa, Que mucho vello ha criado.
I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclosure.
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The llama is the only representative of the camel family on the western hemisphere.
South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.
“We had, in the very old days, these,” said Somel, and sketched with swift sure touches a sort of sheep or llama, “and these”--dogs, of two or three kinds, “that that”--pointing to my absurd but recognizable horse.