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emu
/ˈim(j)u/
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What does emu mean?
noun
- A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
- Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- (informal) Clipping of emulator.
More meanings (11)
noun
- Initialism of English metric unit (“1/360,000-th of a centimetre, or, 1/914400-th of an inch”).
- Initialism of electric multiple unit.
- Alternative form of emu or e.m.u.; Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- Initialism of engine management unit.
- Initialism of extravehicular mobility unit (“spacesuit”).
- Initialism of economic and monetary union.
- (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
proper noun
- 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).
- A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Shire of Central Goldfields and the Shire of Northern Grampians, north western Victoria, Australia
- Initialism of European Monetary Union.
- Initialism of Eastern Mennonite University.
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IPA pronunciation
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Denmark is, in fact, one of the few EC countries likely to fit into the EMU on time.
Some were rigged and painted like birds and beasts, in which the emu and kangaroo were well represented.
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Last night more than one of the blacks had dreamt of an emu, which meant misfortune to one of that totem, which was Beemunny's.
He knew that he was a bear or an emu, or any other such animal as his totem-creed led him to fix his mind upon.
And he said that the emu was as big as an ostrich, and looked like one, and had an amorphous appetite and would eat bricks.