cuscus

See also: Cuscus, cuscús, cúscús, and cușcuș

English

Etymology 1

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cuscus

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)

Any of various arboreal marsupials of New Guinea and northern Australia.

Derived terms

Translations

marsupial

Abau: wown
Finnish: kuskus (fi)
German: Kuskus (de) m, (dated) Cuscus (de) m
Italian: cusco m
Navajo: tseelkǫǫhí
Polish: kuskus (pl) m
Portuguese: cusco (pt)
Russian: куску́с (ru) m (kuskús)

Etymology 2

Noun

cuscus (uncountable)

Dated spelling of couscous.

References

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

Anagrams

succus

[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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