couscous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Couscous \Cous"cous`\ (k??s"k??s`), n.
   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}.
   [1913 Webster]

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