单词 | emu |
释义 | emu /ee"myooh/, n. a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings. [1605-15; earlier emeu (in earliest E source emia, eme), ult. < Pg ema, attested in 1541 as a name for the cassowary (further orig. obscure); the replacement of -a by -eu, etc., is unexplained] |
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