cuscus — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. Any arboreal marsupial of most genera of the family Phalangeridae, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.

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   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.

Substantiv

1. vetiver

   Gebrauch

   • India
   • nicht zählbar

   Synonyme

   khus

Substantiv

1. woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia

   Oberbegriffe

   phalangeropossumpossum