VICUNA
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)
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)
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)
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)
