paco

American  

[pah-koh] / ˈpɑ koʊ /

noun

plural

pacos

1. alpaca.

2. a rust-colored ore composed of iron oxide and tiny particles of silver.

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Example Sentences

Over lunch—farmed paco fire-roasted with yucca inside segments of bamboo, with heliconia-leaf plugs at each end—Don Alberto held forth movingly on the effects of climate change that he’d seen in his lifetime.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

There are the eight female paco from which a season’s worth of eggs are taken, the humbleness of the plastic tanks in which the hatchlings live.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

Li kuŝis sur dolĉa herbo, kaj sentis sin korpe tute mallacigata, kaj granda paco regis en lia animo.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

C  cent tsehnt hundred.    citi tsee-tee to cite, quote.    colo tso-lo inch.    paco pah-tso peace.    pacienco pah-tsee-ehn-tso patience.    oficiro o-fee-tsee-ro officer.    proceso pro-tseh-so lawsuit.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

The llama and the paco or alpaca, although reared extensively by the Incas of Peru, are not certainly known to have been introduced into North America.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)