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CASSOWARY

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• CASSOWARY (noun)
The noun CASSOWARY has 1 sense:

1. large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest

Familiarity information: CASSOWARY used as a noun is very rare.

• CASSOWARY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cassowary" is a kind of...):

flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Holonyms ("cassowary" is a member of...):

Casuarius; genus Casuarius (type and sole genus of the Casuaridae: cassowaries)

"Like water off a duck's back."
(English proverb)
"Words coming from far away are always half true, half false."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"One day is for us, and the other is against us."
(Arabic proverb)
"What good serve candle and glasses, if the owl does not want to see."
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of genus Casuarius
Meaning of ratite
Meaning of flightless bird
Meaning of ratite bird
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