vicuña

== English == === Noun === vicuña (plural vicuñas) Alternative form of vicuna. 2009, J. C. Wheeler, J. Laker, The Vicuña in the Andean Altiplano, Iain J. Gordon (editor), The Vicuña, Springer, page 27, It has been suggested that harvesting reduces the pressure for illegal hunting by providing communities that benefit from vicuña management with incentives to protect the animals over which they have rights. === References === Dictionary.com === Anagrams === UNIVAC == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Quechua wik'uña. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /biˈkuɲa/ [biˈku.ɲa] Rhymes: -uɲa Syllabification: vi‧cu‧ña === Noun === vicuña f (plural vicuñas) vicuna (small, alpaca-like mammal) ==== Coordinate terms ==== (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids) ==== Descendants ==== → Asturian: vicuña → Catalan: vicunya → English: vicuna, vicuña, vicugna → French: vigogne→ English: vigogne→? Italian: vigogna→ Polish: wigoń→ Portuguese: vigonho → Galician: vicuña → Japanese: ビクーニャ (bikūnya) → Portuguese: vicunha → Danish: vikunja === Further reading === “vicuña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025