paco

American  

[pah-koh] / ˈpɑ koʊ /

noun

pacos plural

1. alpaca.

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

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• pacos
  plural

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

The alpaco, or paco, is smaller than the llama.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

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)

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