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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;


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]
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