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Definition of: muscovado
(mus′kə·vā′dō) noun
A raw brown sugar obtained by evaporating the juice of sugarcane and draining off the molasses. Also mus′ca·va′da (-də), mus′co·vade (-vād). [<Sp. mascabado unrefined, pp. of mascabar diminish, var. of menoscabar <menos (<L minus) + cabo head (<L caput)]
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