Couscous

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  • noun. A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
  • noun. A North African dish consisting of this pasta steamed and served with stewed vegetables or meat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The native name of a kind of phalanger, the spotted phalanger of the Moluccas. Also written coescoes. See Cuscus.
  • noun. A favorite west African dish, consisting of flour, flesh or fowls, oil, and the leaves of Adansonia digitata, or baobab. Also called by the natives lalo.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
  • noun. a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina
  • Word Usage
    "The word couscous also refers to the feast meal itself, typically a platter of couscous served alongside a richly spiced stew of beef or lamb and vegetables."
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    lalo