pacovicuna

plural pacovicunas · alternative paco-vicuna · alternative paco-vicuña · alternative pacovicuña

1. A hybrid between an alpaca and vicuna.

   The pacovicuña yields wool equal in quality to that of the vicuna but greater in bulk.

   1963, Owens, Ronald Jerome, Peru, page 141

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   An adult male vicugna will never copulate with a female alpaca unless the first has been timely imprinted to a member of the second species. Therefore, the Peruvian native breeders use exclusively a vicuna previously reared from earliest age by an alpaca whenever they want to get the hybrid called ‘pacovicuna’.

   1981, Hernando De Macedo, Note on Vicuna X Alpaca hybrids, page 1

   Paco-vicuñas are domesticated and are also found in the wild. A paco-vicuña is a cross between an alpaca and a vicuña, though in the United States it is not a first-generation cross but the descendant of paco-vicuñas selectively bred to bring forward those traits.

   2023 August 15, Chris Switzer, “Alpacas and Llamas and Paco-vicuñas!”, in farmfiberknits.com