noun
paco
PAH-koh
noun
1
An alpaca, a South American animal related to the llama, raised for its soft wool.
"The blanket was woven from the fine wool of a paco."
"Herds of paco graze on the high grasslands of the Andes."
2
A rough, earthy silver ore made up of iron oxide flecked with tiny grains of native silver.
"The miners crushed the paco to separate out the silver flecks."
How to Use Paco
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMainly an old word for an alpaca, and separately a mining term for a silver-bearing ore.
Common mistake
This is a specialist/regional term, not a common everyday word — most modern writing just says "alpaca" instead.
Word Forms
pacos plural, pacoes plural
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Etymology
From Spanish paco, itself borrowed from Quechua, the language of the Andes where the animal is native.