cuscus
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuscus (plural cuscuses)
- Any of various arboreal marsupials of New Guinea and northern Australia.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
marsupial
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuscus (uncountable)
References[edit]
- ^ “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.
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- en:Marsupials