Other forms: emus
An emu is a tall flightless Australian bird. A wild emu, emu eggs, the emu ran.
It is the second tallest bird in the world after the ostrich and can run at nearly fifty kilometres an hour. The male incubates the eggs and does not eat, drink or defecate for about eight weeks while doing it. Australia lost a war against them in 1932.
1nounemuA tall flightless Australian bird.
“An emu can't fly, but it can run very fast across the open plains.”
emu is a bird.
Probably from Portuguese ema, a word first used of the cassowary and other large birds.
Probably from Portuguese ema (“originally cassowary; giant rhea; now ostrich”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA