An alternative or variant spelling of emu, the large flightless bird native to Australia.
From Portuguese 'ema' or French 'émeu,' showing how European traders brought back the word for this unusual Australian bird through different language pathways.
The emu has an amazing history in Australia—it's so culturally important that it appears on the Australian coat of arms, and there's even a famous 'Great Emu War' in 1932 when the military tried to cull emus destroying farmland and hilariously lost!
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