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cuscuss

cuscuss is the alternative form of cuscus.

Meaning of cuscus

Noun (1)

cuscus (plural cuscuses)

  1. Any arboreal marsupial of most genera of the family Phalangeridae, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
    • Without eggs, cocoa-nuts, or plantains, we had very short commons, and the boisterous weather being unpropitious for fishing, we had to live on what few eatable birds we could shoot, with an occasional cuscus, or eastern opossum, the only quadruped, except pigs, inhabiting the island.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 357

Noun (2)

cuscus (uncountable)

  1. (India) vetiver
    Synonyms:
    khus

Questions about cuscuss

What is cuscuss the alternative form of?
Cuscuss is the alternative form of cuscus.

Words near cuscuss in the dictionary

  1. cusconin
  2. cusconine
  3. cuscousou
  4. cuscus
  5. cuscuses
  6. cuscuss
  7. cuscusu
  8. cuscutin
  9. CuSe
  10. cusec
  11. cusecs

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