Lita: 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: 1605–15; earlier
emeu (in earliest E source
emia, eme), ult. < Pg
ema, attested in 1541 as a name for the cassowary (further orig. obscure); the replacement of
-a by
-eu, etc., is unexplained
]
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