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An emu is a very large bird from Australia. It runs very fast on long legs, but it cannot fly — its wings are too small. It looks a bit like an ostrich (the big African bird), but it is not the same animal: emus live in Australia, and their feathers are brown-grey and shaggy. People sometimes farm emus for meat and oil.
鴯鶓（澳洲大鳥，不會飛；不是非洲鴕鳥）
組成Probably from Portuguese ema, an old name for large birds that cannot fly (first used for birds like the cassowary and the giant rhea; Portuguese now uses ema for the ostrich). English took the word for this Australian bird.
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Emuname
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A constellation or asterism from Australian aborigine cultures, a dark constellation pattern formed by an arrangement of dark nebulae in the sky, blotting out background stars, appearing akin to the emu (giant bird of Australia).
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A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Shire of Central Goldfields and the Shire of Northern Grampians, north western Victoria, Australia
emunoun詞源 1/ˈiːmjuː/
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A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
- [page 59] The Emu, though not ſo as large as the oſtrich, is only ſecond to it in magnitude. It is by much the largeſt bird in the New Continent; and is generally found to be ſix feet high, meaſuring from its head to the ground. […] [page 60] [T]he emu runs with ſuch a ſwiftneſs, that the fleeteſt dogs are thrown out in the purſuit.
- From New Holland the emeu, / With his better moiety, / Has paid a visit to the Zo- / ological Society.
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obsoleteA cassowary (genus Casuarius).
- [page 1] 1. EGGES. Caſſawary, or Emeu, vide Aldrov: p. 542. Harveum, G.A. p. 61. […] [page 3] 4. CLAWES. […] A legge and claw of the Caſſawary or Emeu that dyed at S. James’s, Weſtminſter.
- It is a native both of the Eaſt and Weſt Indies; and all the writers on birds have deſscribed it. Aldrovand [Ulisse Aldrovandi] calls it Emeu ſive Eme; Boulius, Emeu vulgo Caſoarius; and others, Caſſuarus.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。