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Definitions: Vicuna |
VicunaNoun1. The wool of the vicuna. 2. A soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna. 3. Small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vicuna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonym: VicunaSynonym: Vicugna vicugna (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Vicuna |
| Specialty definitions using "vicuna": casha ♦ uncarded or uncombed fine animal hair. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Vicuna" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Vicuna" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "vicuna" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vicuna | Last name | 130 | 66,752 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
advisor vicuna | 234 |
vicuna | 42 |
argentina mackenna vicuna | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vicuna"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вълна от лама (alpaca), плат от лама. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | vikunja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vigogne, vicuna, vicugna, vicoenja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | vigogne, vicugna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Vikunja, Vikugna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάμηλοσ τησ νότιασ αμερικήσ και ύφασμα εκ του μαλλιού τησ, λάμα βικούνια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | vigogna (vicugna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "ー玉 (beer, beer-garden, beginner, biennale, bigalopolis, bikini, bishop, business, business assessment, business automation, business class, business college, business consultant, business game, business girl, business school, business survey, business wear, bustier, busy, marble, Pieta, victor, Victoria, victory, viola, visa, visiting team, visitor, visitor fee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "キューナ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ollan laamey, laamey feie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icunavay vicunha. (various references) вигонь вигоневый. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lama vicugna. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vicuna": vicunas. (additional references) | |
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"Vicuna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avicenna, icuma, mikuni, Nikunau, sicuan, vauna, vecuna, vican, vicen, Vicia, vicn, vicunna, virun, visuan, Viura, Vocouma, Vymura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vicuna" (pronounced vikyuw"nu) |
| 5 | -k y uw" n u | Kuna. |
| 3 | -uw" n u | kahuna, koruna, Laguna, Luna, tuna. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-u-v" | |
-1 letter: uncia, vinca. | |
-2 letters: cain, unai, unci, vain, vina. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, can, vac, van, vau, via. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, in, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-u-v" | |
+1 letter: vicugna, vicunas, vincula. | |
+2 letters: univocal, vicugnas, vulcanic. | |
+3 letters: avouching, incurvate, involucra, navicular, univocals, vacuuming, vinaceous, vulcanian, vulcanise, vulcanism, vulcanize. | |
+4 letters: adjunctive, chauvinism, chauvinist, cunctative, evacuating, evacuation, incubative, incurvated, incurvates, involucral, naviculars, novaculite, subclavian, survivance, unachieved, uncreative, univocally, victualing, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanisms, vulcanized, vulcanizer, vulcanizes. | |
+5 letters: autoclaving, bivouacking, carnivorous, chauvinisms, chauvinists, confutative, conjunctiva, countervail, cultivating, cultivation, curvilinear, equivalence, equivalency, evacuations, incurvating, incurvation, incurvature, inoculative, involucrate, neuroactive, novaculites, nuncupative, outcaviling, overcaution, oversaucing, subclavians, survivances, uncombative, underactive, unequivocal, vacuolation, ventricular, victualling, vouchsafing, vulcanicity, vulcanisate, vulcanising, vulcanizate, vulcanizers, vulcanizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 63 75 6E 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. -.-. ..- -. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01100011 01110101 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i c u n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0063 0075 006E 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567569878067 |
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