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emu en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈim(j)u/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈiːmjuː/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese ema (“(originally) cassowary; giant rhea; (now) ostrich”).

Meanings

1. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
   • 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. 2015, Sankar Chatterjee, “The Avian Revolution Begins”, in The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution, 2nd edition, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 191:
   • [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. 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, part I (An History of Birds), pages 59 and 60:
   • A stranger cannot but remark, throughout the pastoral districts of Australia, how seldom he sees sheep as he travels along. […] It may be that he will also expect emus and kangaroos, and he will generally be disappointed also in regard to them. Kangaroos I certainly have seen in great numbers, though by no means so often as I expected. An emu running wild I never did see. Tame emus round the houses in towns are very common, and of emus’ eggs there is a plethora. 1873, Anthony Trollope, “Wool”, in Australia and New Zealand. … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 219–220:
   • From New Holland the emeu, / With his better moiety, / Has paid a visit to the Zo- / ological Society. 1829, “The Progress of Zoology”, in T[homas] Crofton Croker, editor, The Christmas Box. An Annual Present to Young Persons, London: John Ebers and Co. 27 Old Bond Street; Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas Wardle, →OCLC, page 176:
   • I left my young emeus […] just parted from their affectionate father, and not yet fully reconciled to beginning the world on their own account. 1864 June 4, William Bennett, “Acclimation and Breeding of Emeus (Dromius irroratus, Bartlett) in Surrey”, in Edward Newman, editor, The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, volume XXII, London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, chapter II:
2. (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
   • 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. 1752, John Hill, “CASUARIUS. [The Cassowary.]”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 482:
   • [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. 1656, John Tradescant [the elder], “Some Kindes of Birds Their Egges, Beaks, Feathers, Clawes, and Spurres”, in Musæum Tradescantianum: Or, A Collection of Rarities. Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant, London: Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke […], →OCLC, pages 1 and 3:

Forms

Deriveds

emuwary · Emu Heights · emu berry · emu-like · emu patrol · emu parade · Emu Wars · emu tree · emu-wren · Emu Swamp · emu oil · emu bush · emu-less · emu apple · Emu Plains · Emu Creek · emu leather · emu bob · dwarf emu · emutail · emu-proof

Descendants

emu · エミュー

Hyponyms

Kangaroo Island emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · Tasmanian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · King Island emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

Translations (96)

lt emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · kky burriway (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · zku kardi (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · hy ավստրալիական ջայլամ (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · hy էմու (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · it emù (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · bcj iniini (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wrh nguurruuyn (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · uk е́му (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · gni garnanganyja (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · tiw yimiyuwu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · sl emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nys weitj (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ro emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · pjt tjakipiri (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nyv wirnin (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · bjb warradya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wmt karnanganyja (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · hi एमू (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ms emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ga éamú (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · cs emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wbp karlaya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nay yarli (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · tr emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · pjt kaḻaya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · xda gungurung (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · zku taitya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · mi īmū (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · de Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · no emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · gl emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ca emú (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · vma jankurna (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nnr garrdi (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nv tsídiitsoh ditsʼozígíí (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · as ইমু (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ar دُرْمِيس أُسْتُرَالِيّ (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · kld thinawan (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · hu emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · es emú (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · is emúi (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · mwp samu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · bvr wurrparn (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ru э́му (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ko 에뮤 (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · chr ᎡᎳᏗᏝ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · pt emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · et emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · da emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · el εμού (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · chr ᎢᎽ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nig ngurrurndutj (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · he אמו (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · be э́му (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wyi boorimul (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nay breki (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · rop emiyu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · cmn 鴯鶓 /鸸鹋 (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ja 鴯鶓 (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · yi עמו (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · kky ngunhdhangunhdha (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wrk kananganja (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · sm emeu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · cy emiw (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · aoi marluwiya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · id emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ngk ngurrurdu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · fr émeu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wlg marntep (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nl emoe (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · io emuo (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nay pinyali (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · af emoe (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · bg ему (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ml എമു (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · te ఈము (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · fi emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · sh emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · rop imiyu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wro jebarranya (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · aer arleye (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · pl emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · eo emuo (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wrr gumurrinji (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ia emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ja エミュー (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · alh djinaliri (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · gbw nguruin (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · ast emú (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · nrk jankurna (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · wrh dhinawan (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · sv emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · zku kurdikurdi (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · fr émeus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) · jui waridji (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

emu en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈiːɛmˌjuː/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From e(lectro)m(agnetic) u(nit).

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
   alt of electromagnetic unit
   • Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm³ or emu/mole. 2005, Peter Mohn, “Experimental Basis of Ferromagnetism”, in Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction (Solid-State Sciences), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 39:
   • Rock Magnetic Properties as Related to a Magnetometer Profile for Serpentines, Sierra Nevada, California / DuBOIS, ROBERT L., Dept. Geology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. / The remanent magnetism of a suite of specimens from a serpentine mass in the Sierra Nevada, California, has a declination of N. 32°E. and an inclination of plus 84°. The average intensity is 80 × 10⁻⁵ emu/cc. 1962, “Abstracts of Papers Submitted for the Meeting in Houston: November 12–14, 1962”, in Geological Society of America: Abstracts for 1962: Abstracts of Papers Submitted for Six Meetings with which the Society was Associated (Special GSA Papers; no. 73), New York, N.Y.: Geological Society of America, published 1963, →OCLC, page 141:
   • A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart. 1941, Henry A[ugustus Perkins], edited by E[dward] U[hler] Condon, College Physics (Prentice-Hall Physics Series), New York, N.Y.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 403:
   • 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. 1974, William Berkson, “Maxwell’s Field Theory”, in Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, page 168:
   • Early investigations showed no detectable magnetic intensity in tektite glass, at the level of about 10⁻⁴ emu/g. (To convert measurements in emu/g to S.I., multiply by 10³.) 1976, John Aloysius O’Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin (Developments in Petrology; 4), Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 109:

Forms

Synonyms

EMU

emu en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛmju/ (General-American)
• /ˈɛmjuː/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From emu(lator).

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of emulator.
   alt of emulator
   • 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 $20 classic series). 2005 February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet), message-ID <9XkTd.5830$Ba3.2608@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>:

Forms

Deriveds

emuscene