cuscus

See also: Cuscus, cuscús, cúscús, and cușcuș

English

Etymology 1
Spilocuscus maculatus, the common spotted cuscus

New Latin Cuscus, former genus name, ultimately (probably via French and Dutch koeskoes) from a local word for the marsupials in a language of the Moluccas.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌs.kəs/, /ˈkuːs.kuːs/
  • Rhymes: -ʌskəs

Noun

cuscus (plural cuscuses)

  1. A type of marsupial from New Guinea.
Translations

Noun

cuscus (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of couscous.

References
  1. “cuscus”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. “cuscus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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