emu
/ee-myoo/US // ˈi myu //UK // (ˈiːmjuː) //
鸸鹋,埃莫,埃莫拉,鹋类
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a large, flightless, ratite bird, Emu novaehollandiae, of Australia, resembling the ostrich but smaller and having a feathered head and neck and rudimentary wings.
Examples
Gordon Brown, too, resisted the siren calls of the Europhiles in his own party to take Britain into the EMU.
Around my middle I wore a kind of double apron of emu skin, with feathers.
A man of the Emu phratry marries a woman of the Kangaroo phratry, and to that phratry her children belong.
Lizard man, in local group Emu, might marry Snipe woman also in local group Emu, as far as extant totem law now goes.
Emu local group is now full of members of Snipe, Lizard, and other animal-named members by maternal descent.
Thus Lizard man, in Emu local group, cannot marry Snipe woman in the same.
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