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guanaco

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/
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  • CMU ARPABET: G W AH0 N AA1 K OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

wild llama

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Lama guanicoe

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: llama

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: guanacu — Lama guanicoe
  • Belarusian: гуанака (huanaka) — Lama guanicoe
  • Bulgarian: гуана́ко (guanáko) — Lama guanicoe
  • Catalan: guanac — Lama guanicoe
  • Chinese Mandarin: 原駝 /原驼 (yuántuo) — Lama guanicoe
  • Czech: guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Danish: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Danish: guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Dutch: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Finnish: guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • French: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Galician: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Georgian: ჰუანაკო (huanaḳo) — Lama guanicoe
  • German: Guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • German: Huanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Greek: γουανάκος (gouanákos) — Lama guanicoe
  • Interlingua: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Irish: guanacó — Lama guanicoe
  • Italian: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Japanese: グアナコ (guanako) — Lama guanicoe
  • Korean: 구아나코 (guanako) — Lama guanicoe
  • Korean: 과나코 (gwanako) — Lama guanicoe
  • Macedonian: гва́нако (gvánako) — Lama guanicoe
  • Norwegian Bokmål: guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: guanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Polish: gwanako — Lama guanicoe
  • Polish: gwanako andyjskie — Lama guanicoe
  • Portuguese: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Quechua: wanaku — Lama guanicoe
  • Romanian: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Russian: гуана́ко (guanáko) — Lama guanicoe
  • Spanish: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Swedish: guanaco — Lama guanicoe
  • Volapük: huanak — Lama guanicoe
  • Yámana: amára — Lama guanicoe