n. A young alpaca, llama, or vicuña, especially before it is weaned. [American Spanish cría, from Spanish, litter, young of an animal, from criar, to suckle, rear, from Latin creāre, to produce, create; see ker-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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