Definitions
large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller
Word origin
Probably from Portuguese ema (“(originally) cassowary; giant rhea; (now) ostrich”).
Used in a sentence
“From New Holland the emeu, / With his better moiety, / Has paid a visit to the Zo- / ological Society.”
“I left my young emeus […] just parted from their affectionate father, and not yet fully reconciled to beginning the world on their own account.”
“Both cassowaries and emus are large, flightless, cursorial birds with diminutive wings. […] Emus, the world's second largest living birds, live in Australia and are the only extant member of the genus Dromaius.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues
01“Australian bird”3 letters
02“Aussie runner”3 letters
03“Australian runner bird”3 letters
04“Runner from Australia”3 letters
05“Tall Australian bird”3 letters
06“Tall bird from Australia”3 letters
07“Tall flightless bird”3 letters
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