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kusskuss

kusskuss is the alternative form of couscous.

kusskuss is the alternative form of cuscus.

Meaning of couscous

Noun

couscous (countable and uncountable, plural couscouses)

  1. A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
    • Karou took the plate of couscous and vegetables.2012, Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight, →ISBN

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 kusskuss

What is kusskuss the alternative form of?
Kusskuss is the alternative form of couscous.

Words near kusskuss in the dictionary

  1. kuskus grass
  2. Kuskwogmiut
  3. kusoge
  4. kuspuk
  5. kuspuks
  6. kusskuss
  7. Kussmaul
  8. Kussmaul breathing
  9. Kussmaul respiration
  10. kusso
  11. Kustenau

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