couscous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
  2. noun a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina

WordNet


Cous"cous` noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913