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emu

1

[ ee-myoo ]

noun

  1. 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.


EMU

2

e.m.u.

1

abbreviation for

  1. electromagnetic unit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


emu

2

/ ˈiːmjuː /

noun

  1. a large Australian flightless bird, Dromaius novaehollandiae, similar to the ostrich but with three-toed feet and grey or brown plumage: order Casuariiformes See also ratite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

EMU

3

abbreviation for

  1. European Monetary Union
  2. Economic and Monetary Union
  3. See e.m.u.
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

EMU

  1. Abbreviation of electromagnetic unit


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Word History and Origins

Origin of emu1

1605–15; earlier emeu (in earliest E source emia, eme ), ultimately < Portuguese ema, attested in 1541 as a name for the cassowary (further origin obscure); the replacement of -a by -eu, etc., is unexplained
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Word History and Origins

Origin of emu1

C17: changed from Portuguese ema ostrich, from Arabic Na-`amah ostrich
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Example Sentences

Gordon Brown, too, resisted the siren calls of the Europhiles in his own party to take Britain into the EMU.

Around my middle I wore a kind of double apron of emu skin, with feathers.

A man of the Emu phratry marries a woman of the Kangaroo phratry, and to that phratry her children belong.

Lizard man, in local group Emu, might marry Snipe woman also in local group Emu, as far as extant totem law now goes.

Emu local group is now full of members of Snipe, Lizard, and other animal-named members by maternal descent.

Thus Lizard man, in Emu local group, cannot marry Snipe woman in the same.

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