guanaco
Americannoun
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guanacos
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noun
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Origin of guanaco
1595–1605; < Spanish < Quechua wanaku
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The Tehuelche were innovators, too: Outsiders marveled at their bolas, weighted rope snares they swung and launched from horseback to hunt llamalike guanaco and flightless rhea birds.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
Seven Worlds, One Planet A new episode of this nature series travels to South America, where pumas in the Andes stalk a llama-like creature called the guanaco and rarely seen bears forage for mini avocados.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
A guanaco is a bit like a llama.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2012
An armored truck spraying water from mounted cannons — called a guanaco, for the llamalike Andean animal that spits — rolled toward the .
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
For beds they have cushions made of coarse blankets stuffed with guanaco wool, and they know the comfort of pillows, which are made of soft skins stuffed with guanaco hair.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Among the unanswered questions were whether guanacos had actually once lived in the park, and how climate change might affect the long-term viability of a new population.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023
In some parts of the region, the domestication of camelids such as llamas, guanacos, and alpacas for meat and later wool may have begun as early as 7400 BCE.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He pointed out wild llama-like guanacos grazing on the steppe, a gray fox running across the road, and caracara falcons perched on the fence posts.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Maras and desert-dwelling penguins are featured and baby guanacos are shown taking their first steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
I saw the guanacos run for a dark-looking cleft between two mountain spurs.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
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