Paco vs Paca - What's the difference?
paco | paca |
(archaic) alpaca
An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
* 1880 , John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores (page 652)
Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also ), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.
As a noun paco
is palace (large residence where aristocrats usually live).As a proper noun paca is
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- (Ure)
- Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.