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Webster 1913 Edition

Emu

E′mu

,
Noun.
[Cf. Pg.
ema
ostrich, F.
émou
,
émeu
, emu.]
(Zoöl.)
A large Australian bird, of two species (
Dromaius Novæ-Hollandiæ
and
D. irroratus
), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.
[Written also
emeu
and
emew
.]
☞ The name is sometimes erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the rhea, or South American ostrich.
Emu wren
.
See in the Vocabulary.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emu

E'MU

,
Noun.
A large fowl of S. America, with wings unfit for flight.
This name properly belongs to the Cassowary, but has been erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the Rhea or S. American ostrich.

Definition 2024

Emu

Emu

See also: emu, EMU, ému, emú, and emù

German

Emu

Noun

Emu m ‎(genitive Emus, plural Emus)

  1. emu

Declension

emu

emu

See also: Emu, EMU, ému, emú, and emù

English

An emu

Alternative forms

Noun

emu ‎(plural emus)

  1. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

Translations

Abbreviation

emu

  1. electromagnetic unit.
    • 1943, Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics, p. 530:
      A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart.
    • 1959, American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts, p. 38:
      The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu/cm3.
    • 1974, William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, p. 168:
      The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
    • 1976, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin, p. 109:
      Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu/g.
    • 2005, Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction, p. 39:
      Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm3 or emu/mole.
  2. (computing, video games, informal) emulator
    • 2005, "Dane L. Galden at at", Could this be used for classic emus on GBA? (on newsgroup rec.games.video.classic)
      Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

emu m

  1. emu (large flightless bird native to Australia)

Esperanto

Verb

emu

  1. imperative of emi

Finnish

Noun

emu

  1. emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae, the only extant species in its genus)

Declension

Inflection of emu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative emu emut
genitive emun emujen
partitive emua emuja
illative emuun emuihin
singular plural
nominative emu emut
accusative nom. emu emut
gen. emun
genitive emun emujen
partitive emua emuja
inessive emussa emuissa
elative emusta emuista
illative emuun emuihin
adessive emulla emuilla
ablative emulta emuilta
allative emulle emuille
essive emuna emuina
translative emuksi emuiksi
instructive — emuin
abessive emutta emuitta
comitative — emuineen

Galician

Noun

emu m ‎(plural emus)

  1. emu

Japanese

Romanization

emu

  1. rōmaji reading of えむ
  2. rōmaji reading of エム

Portuguese

Etymology

From English emu, from Portuguese ema ‎(“rhea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ˈmu/

Noun

emu m (plural emus)

  1. emu

Related terms

Swedish

Noun

emu c

  1. an emu

Declension

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese ema ‎(“ostrich”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːmuː/

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