Definition of "guanaco" [gua•na•co]

• A reddish-brown South American ruminant mammal (Lama guanicoe) related to and resembling the domesticated llama. (noun)

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• "Get your cute fix with a rescued baby dolphin and a newborn guanaco, which is a llama-like creature native to South America."
• "In appearance the guanaco is the personification of gentleness."
• "(evidently a corruption of "guanaco"), one of their modes is to lie in wait for it on the limb of a tree which projects over the path taken by these animals, the habit of which is to follow one another in single file, and along old frequented tracks."