Usually means: Large, flightless bird with casque.
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  1. cassowary: Merriam-Webster
  2. cassowary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cassowary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cassowary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cassowary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cassowary, cassowary: Wordnik
  7. cassowary: Wiktionary
  8. cassowary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cassowary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cassowary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cassowary, cassowary: Dictionary.com
  12. cassowary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cassowary (disambiguation), Cassowary (software), Cassowary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cassowary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cassowary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cassowary: Rhymezone
  17. Cassowary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cassowary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cassowary: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cassowary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cassowary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cassowary: Encyclopedia

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  1. cassowary: Medical dictionary

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  1. cassowary: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. cassowary: Anthropological Terms

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  1. cassowary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cassowary)

noun:  Any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.

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