Cria means a baby llama or alpaca. The English word comes from Spanish cría, related to criar, “to rear” or “to raise” a young animal. The four-letter word may seem merely like a useful Scrabble play, but it’s also the everyday term for those long-legged little camelids. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Cria” Refers to the Young of a Llama or Alpaca”
Grant, I just learned the meaning of the word Kriag.
C-R-I-A.
It seems like it would be a great word for scrabble or something.
Is this from biology?
Refers to groups of animals of some kind.
Wow, you’re on the right track there.
Like bunnies, foxes?
I’m not sure.
Well a cría C-R-I-A refers to a baby llama or a baby alpaca.
It comes from the Spanish word cría, which means the Exactly.
I thought that would be such a good word for a good word.
Yeah, the the list of baby animal names and they’re often very cute.
If you have baby alpacas and baby llamas, we definitely want to see the pictures.
But we also want your questions, stories, thoughts, whatever, about language, call or text toll free eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three.
