PACOS, or PACO, in Zoology, a species of camel, commonly, though improperly, reckoned a species of sheep; and known among many by the name of the Indian sheep, or Peruvian sheep. See CAMELUS, MAMMALIA Index.
This creature has been accounted a sheep, because its hair is so long as to resemble wool, and it is prodigiously thick; its head and neck alone having more wool on them than the whole body of our largest sheep. Its body is clothed in the same proportion with a woolly hair equally fine.