vicuña
English
editNoun
editvicuña (plural vicuñas)
- Alternative form of vicuna
- 2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27,
- It has been suggested that harvesting reduces the pressure for illegal hunting by providing communities that benefit from vicuña management with incentives to protect the animals over which they have rights.
- 2009, Jason Wilson, The Andes: A Cultural History, page 12:
- Vicuña hide was so precious that by the early 1930s, these animals—wild relatives of the llama and alpaca—were threatened with extinction, according to Tschiffely […] .
- 2010, Neil Edward Schlecht, Frommer′s Peru, page 335:
- Vicuñas are the smallest members of the camelid family, as well as the most prized and endangered.
- 2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27,
References
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Quechua wik'uña.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvicuña f (plural vicuñas)
- vicuna (small, alpaca-like mammal)
Coordinate terms
edit- (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids)
Descendants
edit- → Asturian: vicuña
- → Catalan: vicunya
- → English: vicuna, vicuña, vicugna
- → French: vigogne
- → Galician: vicuña
- → Japanese: ビクーニャ (bikūnya)
- → Portuguese: vicunha
Further reading
edit- “vicuña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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