Usually means: Large, flightless bird from Australia.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. emu: Merriam-Webster
  2. EMU, EMU, emu, emu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. EMU, emu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. e.m.u, emu: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emu: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emu, emu: Wordnik
  7. EMU, emu: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. EMU, emu: Wiktionary
  9. emu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emu (emeu): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emu: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emu: Dictionary.com
  13. emu: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. EMU (disambiguation), EMU, E.mu, Emu (beer), Emu (disambiguation), Emu (journal), Emu (puppet), Emu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emu: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emu: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emu: Rhymezone
  18. Emu: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emu: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. EMU, emu: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. emu: FreeDictionary.org
  22. emu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. EMU, e.m.u: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. emu: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. EMU: bizterms.net
  2. EMU: Glossary of research economics
  3. EMU: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. EMU: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. emu: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. emu: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CIA World Factbook (No longer online)
  2. EMU: Acronym Finder
  3. EMU: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EMU: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emu: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. emu: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
noun:  A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
noun:  A dark constellation in Southern Celestial Hemisphere, Dome of the Sky; A constellation or asterism from Australian aborigine cultures, a dark constellation pattern formed by an arrangement of dark nebulae in the sky, blotting out background stars, appearing akin to the emu giant bird of Australia.
noun:  (physics) Initialism of electromagnetic unit. [Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu, e.m.u., or EMU.]
noun:  (computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator. [A person or thing that emulates.]
noun:  (European Union) Initialism of European Monetary Union.
noun:  Initialism of Eastern Mennonite University.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of English metric unit (“1/360,000-th of a centimetre, or, 1/914400-th of an inch”).
noun:  (rail transport, countable) Initialism of electric multiple unit. [(rail transport) A multiple unit train powered by electricity, abbreviated EMU.]
noun:  (cgs) Alternative form of emu or e.m.u.; Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
noun:  (automotive engineering) Initialism of engine management unit.
noun:  (astronautics) Initialism of extravehicular mobility unit (“spacesuit”).
noun:  (economics) Initialism of economic and monetary union.

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