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cria

cria noun: a young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

cria: a young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca)
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Noun

cria (plural crias)

  1. A young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

Proper noun capitalized: CRIA

CRIA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Forms of cria

pluralcrias

Origin of cria

Borrowed from Spanish cría (“kid; pup; cria”).

Questions about cria

What does cria mean?
Cria means a young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).
What part of speech is cria?
Cria can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cria?
The plural of cria is crias.

Words near cria in the dictionary

  1. cri de coeur
  2. cri de cœur
  3. cri du chat
  4. cri du chat syndrome
  5. cri-de-coeur
  6. cria
  7. criadera
  8. criaderas
  9. Criado
  10. Criados
  11. Crianlarich

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cria (page history and authors); CRIA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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