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muscovado

muscovado noun: an unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

muscovado: an unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses
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Noun

muscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados or muscovadoes)

  1. An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

muscovado meaning in Tamil

muscovado in Tamil

பழுப்புச்சர்க்கரை

Forms of muscovado

pluralmuscovados
pluralmuscovadoes

Origin of muscovado

Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

Questions about muscovado

What does muscovado mean?
Muscovado means an unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.
What is muscovado in Tamil?
Muscovado in Tamil is பழுப்புச்சர்க்கரை. See Muscovado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is muscovado?
Muscovado is a noun.
What is the plural of muscovado?
The plural of muscovado is muscovados.

Words near muscovado in the dictionary

  1. muscone
  2. muscones
  3. Muscongus Bay sloop
  4. Muscos
  5. muscosity
  6. muscovado
  7. muscovadoes
  8. muscovados
  9. Muscovian
  10. Muscovians
  11. muscovies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muscovado (page history and authors); muscovado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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