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# emu

«emu» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large bird from Australia that cannot fly but can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an emu, emus)

### meaning for a pupil

An emu is a very large bird from Australia that cannot fly but can run very fast. It is the second-tallest bird in the world, after the ostrich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is a flightless bird with strong legs; in Australia it appears on the coat of arms with the kangaroo. In stories and nature programmes emus roam dry plains. Phrases: «a mob of emus», «emu eggs».

### examples

- An emu can run faster than a car on a city street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x1)
- Emus cannot fly, but they are great runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x2)
- The emu laid big dark green eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x3)
- The father emu sits on the eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x4)
- We saw a mob of emus in the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x5)
- An emu and a kangaroo are on Australia's coat of arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x6)
- The emu is the second-tallest bird after the ostrich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «EE-myoo». Countable: an emu, emus. A group is often called a «mob». Fun fact: the male emu sits on the eggs and looks after the chicks.

### In the corpora

- [Emus are the second largest birds in the world after the ostrich and can run very fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/6/)
- [People everywhere have made pictures of the sky: Aboriginal Australians see an Emu in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/4/)
- [Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/16/)
- [Ostriches and emus are birds that cannot fly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/9/)
- [Not all birds can fly: penguins, ostriches, emus and kiwis are birds that can't, but all birds have feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «emu» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emu/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.