Definitions for EMU

EMU e·mu

Spelling: [ee-myoo]
IPA: /ˈi myu/

Emu is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in EMU (emu).

Definitions for EMU

noun

  1. a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu (Dromaius) novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.

Origin of EMU

1605-15; earlier emeu (in earliest E source emia, eme), ultimately Portuguese ema, attested in 1541 as a name for the cassowary (further origin obscure); the replacement of -a by -eu, etc., i

Examples for EMU

Of the thirty species of grallatores the most remarkable is the emu.

Can it be the emu engaged with a man-of-war, by any possibility?

We could here gain no intelligence of the emu, so we again sailed.

This we knew would, of course, give the emu a great advantage.

Gordon Brown, too, resisted the siren calls of the Europhiles in his own party to take Britain into the emu.

Indeed she does,” he answered; “but she may not be the emu; and if she is, your friends may not be on board her.

The emu, seeing them, turned tail, and off it went at a rapid rate.

They had collected some of the emu feathers, which were lying all about.

Tommy also shot an emu that came to water, and which we carried to camp.

“I wonder we did not come across these when we were running after the emu,” I observed.

Word Value for EMU
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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