pacovicunaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Most likely a blend of alpaco +‎ vicuna

名詞

pacovicuna (plural pacovicunas)

1. A hybrid between an alpaca and vicuna.
   • 1963, Owens, Ronald Jerome, Peru‎, page 141:

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

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

     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’.

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

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• This word and its alternative forms are sometimes capitalised even when not placed in front of a sentence; both paco and vicuna/vicuña are sometimes capitalised in the hyphenated forms.