Alpaca \Al*pac"a\, n. [Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian name of the animal. Cf. {Paco}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) An animal of Peru ({Lama paco}), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. 2. Wool of the alpaca. 3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.