cuscus

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See also: Cuscus, cuscús, cúscús, and cușcuș

English

Etymology 1

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Spilocuscus maculatus, the common spotted cuscus

From 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.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuscus (plural cuscuses)

  1. Any arboreal marsupial of genera Ailurops, Phalanger, Spilocuscus, and Strigocuscus, all in the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia.
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Etymology 2

Noun

cuscus (uncountable)

  1. (India) vetiver
    Synonym: khus

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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