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...
What do a baby eel, a baby salmon, a baby oyster, and a baby hare have in common? They all have names most people have never heard: elver, smolt, spat, and leveret. A cria is a baby llama or alpaca, from a Spanish word that refers to the rearing of...
