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ǁ Cuscus3. World English Historical Dictionary

ǁ Cuscus3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. ǁ Cuscus3 [mod.L. from the native name; see COUSCOUS2.] A genus of marsupial quadrupeds found in New Guinea.

1 1662.  J. Davies, Mandelslo’s Trav. E. Ind., 165. There is in this Island a kind of beasts they call Cusos, that keeps constantly in trees, living on nothing but fruit. They resemble our Rabbets.

2 1880.  D’Albertis, New Guinea, I. 407. On the branch of a tall tree we may perhaps see a cuscus slowly creeping along.

3 1889.  H. H. Romilly, Verandah in N. Guinea, 69. The opossums and cuscus tribe taste strongly of gum leaves on which they feed.

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