Definition of "emeu" [e•meu]

• Obsolete form of emu. (noun)

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• "The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea American ostrich, and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude."
• "Perhaps the wind is the chief agent in scattering them, but wild birds, especially the emeu and the turkey, are a good second."
• "Among them is the emeu, a kind of ostrich that practically is wingless."