cuscus — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. vetiver

   Uso

   • India
   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   khus

Sostantivo

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

   Termini più generali

   phalangeropossumpossum