paco

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/ˈpɑːkəʊ/

noun

An alpaca.

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paco1

nounpaco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)

plural pacos · plural pacoes

  1. archaiccountableuncountableAn alpaca.
  2. countableuncountableAn earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.

    Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.

    1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652

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paco · noun

  1. Spanishpaco
  2. Englishpaco

From Spanish paco.

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Paco · proper noun

  1. SpanishFrancisco
  2. SpanishPaco
  3. EnglishPaco

Borrowed from Spanish Paco, diminutive of Spanish Francisco. See also Spanish Pancho.

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APA

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Chicago

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