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/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌskəs

Noun

cuscus (plural cuscuses)

  1. Any of various arboreal marsupials of New Guinea and northern Australia.
Derived terms
  • Australian spotted cuscus
  • grey cuscus
  • southern common cuscus
  • spotted cuscus
  • Woodlark cuscus
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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