llama — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

above, floating, great, shut, tiny, wild

VERB + LLAMA

form, head, killed, rests

LLAMA + NOUN

alpaca, antibodies, pembrokeshire, tourists

PREP.

in, up, with

Definitions

noun

1

A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

noun

1

Archaic form of lama.

He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking.

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Example Bank

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01

He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such

Wiktionary

02

To record something, they used knotted cords made of the wool of the llama or alpaca.

Tatoeba · #25205

03

They sit on the ground or on blankets made of the wool of the llama or alpaca.

Tatoeba · #307137

04

Every day they killed a llama to make the Sun God happy.

Tatoeba · #322446

05

Is it a llama?

Tatoeba · #773429

06

Is that a llama?

Tatoeba · #1825390

Usage Notes

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In some senses, llama is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.