emun.

Brit.

/ˈiːmjuː/, U.S.

/ˈim(j)u/

Forms: Also 1600s emia, eme, 1600s– emeu, 1700s–1800s emew.

Etymology: Alleged by early travellers (see quot. 1613 at sense 1) to be the name used by the inhabitants of Banda and the neighbouring islands; now, however, believed to be < Portuguese ema, originally denoting the crane, but afterwards applied to the ostrich and to various birds of ostrich-like appearance. ‘The form emu is now more common in popular writing, and has latterly been adopted in the transactions of the Zoological Society. Prof. Newton, however, and some other eminent authorities prefer the older form emeu’ ( n.e.d., 1891).

†1. = cassowary n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > order Casuariiformes (emus) > member of genus Casuarius (cassowary)

cassowary1611

emu1613

muruk1858

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage I. v. xii. 430 The bird called Emia or Eme is admirable.

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) ii. xi. 74 The Cassoware or Emeu.

†2. ? The American Ostrich, Rhea americana. [Perhaps an error; the Portuguese ema is applied to this bird.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > rhea americana (rhea)

ostrich1581

emu1774

rhea?1787

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 64 The Emu..which many call the American Ostrich.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. x. 245 The largest bird in Guiana is there called tuyew, and by others emu.

3. A genus ( Dromæus) of birds, constituting the family Dromæidæ of the order Megistanes, subclass Ratitæ. It is peculiar to the Australian continent. The best known species ( D. novæ-hollandiæ), discovered soon after the colonization of New South Wales in 1788, was originally regarded as a species of Cassowary; the Emu and Cassowary are closely allied, but the former is distinguished by the absence of the horny ‘helmet’ and of the caruncles on the neck, and by the presence of a singular opening in the front of the windpipe.

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the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > order Casuariiformes (emus) > dromaius novae (emu)

emu1842

New Holland cassowary1842

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 145/2 The Emeu can produce a hollow drumming sort of note.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1888) II. 224 The female of one of the emus (Dromæus inoratus) is..larger than the male.

1875 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals II. 368 The Emeus are found only on the main-land of Australia.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 46 In a good season emus and kangaroos are fairly plentiful.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 16 Grubs, snakes, emus, and kangaroos can be palatable.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 28 Emu meat, when cooked in the skin, is inclined to be oily.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 76 Many people say that the emu is the fastest creature in the bush.

Compounds

emu-apple n. an Australian tree, Owenia acidula, which bears a red fruit.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 137/2 Emu-apple.

1905 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales II. 90 It [sc. Owenia acidula] is called ‘Sour Plum’, ‘Native Peach or Nectarine’, and ‘Emu Apple’.

emu-bush n. either of two Australian shrubs (see quots. 1889¹, 1889²).

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 132 Heterodendron oleæfolium..Emu Bush..All the colonies except Tasmania.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 317 Eremophila longifolia..‘Emu Bush’, owing to emus feeding on the seeds of this and other species... In all the colonies except Tasmania.

1910 C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track 86 The emu-bush, which droops like the bunch of an emu's tail and is very good to eat—as the rabbits have found.

1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 211 Country that was a maze of emu-bush and mulga scrubs.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 165 The currant or emu bush: needle-leafed, with fruit like blackberries, each one the size of a pea—not caviare to emus.

emu-tree n. a low tree or shrub, a native of Tasmania.

1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees 206 Emu Tree.

emu-wren n. an Australian bird, Stipiturus (or Malurus) malacurus, of the family Sylviidæ.

ΚΠ

1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. I. 339 The Emu Wren is..fond of low marshy districts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

EMU n. also pronounced

Brit.

/ˈiːmjuː/

U.S.

/ˈim(j)u/

European monetary union (also economic and monetary union); see European monetary union n. at European adj. and n. Compounds 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun] > specific

Hanse1305

torgsin1933

Comecon1949

common market1950

Euratom1956

Euro-executive1957

EEC1958

Efta1959

OPEC1960

EMU1969

EU1990

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system

free market1642

peasant economy1883

agriculturism1885

money economy1888

price system1889

external economy1890

peace economy1905

war economy1919

planned economy1924

market economy1929

circular economy1932

managed economy1932

mixed economy1936

market socialism1939

plural economy1939

market capitalism1949

external diseconomy1952

siege economy1962

knowledge economy1967

linear economy1968

EMU1969

wage economy1971

grey economy1977

EMS1978

enterprise culture1979

new economy1981

tiger1981

share economy1983

gig economy2009

1969 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 7 716/2 The EMU would accept gold at the IMF price, and national European and non-European currencies.

1972 Economist 12 Feb. 62/1 European monetary union (Emu), the half-baked try at unifying the currencies of the Six (which was due to start last June but never did), is now right back at the top of the common market agenda.

1977 Times 5 Oct. 7/7 A bold..attempt to relaunch the EEC towards economic and monetary union (EMU) is being prepared by the European Commission... Regional disparities need not be an insuperable barrier to EMU, Mr Jenkins believes.

1996 India Today 30 June 107/2 Denmark has opted out of the EMU.

2010 Daily Tel. 10 May (Business section) b4/8 The answer to this—if the objective is to save EMU—is for Germany to boost its growth and tolerate higher ‘relative’ inflation.

单词	emu
释义	emun. Brit. /ˈiːmjuː/, U.S. /ˈim(j)u/ Forms: Also 1600s emia, eme, 1600s– emeu, 1700s–1800s emew. Etymology: Alleged by early travellers (see quot. 1613 at sense 1) to be the name used by the inhabitants of Banda and the neighbouring islands; now, however, believed to be < Portuguese ema, originally denoting the crane, but afterwards applied to the ostrich and to various birds of ostrich-like appearance. ‘The form emu is now more common in popular writing, and has latterly been adopted in the transactions of the Zoological Society. Prof. Newton, however, and some other eminent authorities prefer the older form emeu’ ( n.e.d., 1891). †1. = cassowary n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > order Casuariiformes (emus) > member of genus Casuarius (cassowary) cassowary1611 emu1613 muruk1858 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage I. v. xii. 430 The bird called Emia or Eme is admirable. 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) ii. xi. 74 The Cassoware or Emeu. †2. ? The American Ostrich, Rhea americana. [Perhaps an error; the Portuguese ema is applied to this bird.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > rhea americana (rhea) ostrich1581 emu1774 rhea?1787 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 64 The Emu..which many call the American Ostrich. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. x. 245 The largest bird in Guiana is there called tuyew, and by others emu. 3. A genus ( Dromæus) of birds, constituting the family Dromæidæ of the order Megistanes, subclass Ratitæ. It is peculiar to the Australian continent. The best known species ( D. novæ-hollandiæ), discovered soon after the colonization of New South Wales in 1788, was originally regarded as a species of Cassowary; the Emu and Cassowary are closely allied, but the former is distinguished by the absence of the horny ‘helmet’ and of the caruncles on the neck, and by the presence of a singular opening in the front of the windpipe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > order Casuariiformes (emus) > dromaius novae (emu) emu1842 New Holland cassowary1842 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 145/2 The Emeu can produce a hollow drumming sort of note. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1888) II. 224 The female of one of the emus (Dromæus inoratus) is..larger than the male. 1875 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals II. 368 The Emeus are found only on the main-land of Australia. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 46 In a good season emus and kangaroos are fairly plentiful. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 16 Grubs, snakes, emus, and kangaroos can be palatable. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 28 Emu meat, when cooked in the skin, is inclined to be oily. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 76 Many people say that the emu is the fastest creature in the bush. Compounds emu-apple n. an Australian tree, Owenia acidula, which bears a red fruit. Π 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 137/2 Emu-apple. 1905 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales II. 90 It [sc. Owenia acidula] is called ‘Sour Plum’, ‘Native Peach or Nectarine’, and ‘Emu Apple’. emu-bush n. either of two Australian shrubs (see quots. 1889¹, 1889²). Π 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 132 Heterodendron oleæfolium..Emu Bush..All the colonies except Tasmania. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 317 Eremophila longifolia..‘Emu Bush’, owing to emus feeding on the seeds of this and other species... In all the colonies except Tasmania. 1910 C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track 86 The emu-bush, which droops like the bunch of an emu's tail and is very good to eat—as the rabbits have found. 1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 211 Country that was a maze of emu-bush and mulga scrubs. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 165 The currant or emu bush: needle-leafed, with fruit like blackberries, each one the size of a pea—not caviare to emus. emu-tree n. a low tree or shrub, a native of Tasmania. Π 1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees 206 Emu Tree. emu-wren n. an Australian bird, Stipiturus (or Malurus) malacurus, of the family Sylviidæ. ΚΠ 1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. I. 339 The Emu Wren is..fond of low marshy districts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas EMU EMU n. also pronounced Brit. /ˈiːmjuː/ , U.S. /ˈim(j)u/ European monetary union (also economic and monetary union); see European monetary union n. at European adj. and n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun] > specific Hanse1305 torgsin1933 Comecon1949 common market1950 Euratom1956 Euro-executive1957 EEC1958 Efta1959 OPEC1960 EMU1969 EU1990 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system free market1642 peasant economy1883 agriculturism1885 money economy1888 price system1889 external economy1890 peace economy1905 war economy1919 planned economy1924 market economy1929 circular economy1932 managed economy1932 mixed economy1936 market socialism1939 plural economy1939 market capitalism1949 external diseconomy1952 siege economy1962 knowledge economy1967 linear economy1968 EMU1969 wage economy1971 grey economy1977 EMS1978 enterprise culture1979 new economy1981 tiger1981 share economy1983 gig economy2009 1969 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 7 716/2 The EMU would accept gold at the IMF price, and national European and non-European currencies. 1972 Economist 12 Feb. 62/1 European monetary union (Emu), the half-baked try at unifying the currencies of the Six (which was due to start last June but never did), is now right back at the top of the common market agenda. 1977 Times 5 Oct. 7/7 A bold..attempt to relaunch the EEC towards economic and monetary union (EMU) is being prepared by the European Commission... Regional disparities need not be an insuperable barrier to EMU, Mr Jenkins believes. 1996 India Today 30 June 107/2 Denmark has opted out of the EMU. 2010 Daily Tel. 10 May (Business section) b4/8 The answer to this—if the objective is to save EMU—is for Germany to boost its growth and tolerate higher ‘relative’ inflation. extracted from En.¹ EMU EMU n. now historical European Monetary Unit, a former name for the ECU (ECU n.). ΚΠ 1970 Economist 28 Nov. 94/3 Seven banks..are launching a largish..15-year loan denominated in European Monetary Units, with 1 EMU equal to $1. 1978 Business Week 6 Nov. 98/3 The British..want the EMS to use a weighted basket of currencies known as the European Monetary Unit (EMU) as the ‘numeraire’, or common denominator for the system. 2011 Australian (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Finance section) 12 First time around, it was the EMU (European Monetary Unit), and two decades ago the euro was introduced. extracted from En.¹ EMU EMU n. electric multiple unit (electric multiple unit n. at electric adj. and n. Compounds 1b); frequently attributive. Π 1963 Jrnl. Inst. Locomotive Engineers 53 65 The percentage increase on a BOX type bogie wagon would be..less still in the case of higher initial cost assets such as the E.M.U. train sets, locomotives, etc. 1990 Power Engin. Jrnl. 4 310/2 Fig. 2 shows the relative cost of the traction motors for a four-car DC EMU. 2013 Y. Sang et al. in C. A. Brebbia et al. Computers in Railways XIII. iv. 183 For a selected EMU, its operating status in a specified period of time can also be traced in a map-like view. extracted from En.¹ < n.1613 as lemmas
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emun.

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