Noun:

शुतुरमुर्ग की तरह का एक बड़ा पक्षी,

cassowary's Usage Examples:

cassowary bird.

Among the plants the wild banana, pepper, orange and mangosteen, rhododendron, epiphytic orchids and the palm; among mammals the bats and rats; among birds the cassowary and rifle birds; and among reptiles the crocodile and tree snakes, characterize this element.

The Papuan loves personal adornment and loses no chance of dressing himself up. His chief home-made ornaments are necklaces, armlets and ear-rings of shells, teeth or fibre, and cassowary, cockatoo, or bird of paradise feathers - the last two, or a flower, are worn through the septum of the nose.

The mooruk, or Bennett's cassowary (Casuarius Bennettii), is a shorter and more robust bird, approaching in the thickness of its legs to the moas.

he judged that the same would be the case with the cassowary and the emeu, which, with the two forms mentioned above, made up the whole of the " Oiseaux anomaux" whose existence was then generally acknowledged.

The Papuan bow is rather short, the arrows barbed and tipped with cassowary or human bone.

The emu corresponds with the African and Arabian ostrich, the rhea of South America, and the cassowary of the Moluccas and New Guinea.

Starting with the kiwi and cassowary, people have got into the habit of confounding flightless with wingless conditions.

CASSOWARY (Casuarius), a genus of struthious birds, only inferior in size to the emeu and ostrich, and, according to Sir R.

The common cassowary (Casuarius galeatus) stands 5 ft.

Synonyms:

genus Casuarius, ratite bird, Casuarius, ratite, flightless bird,

Antonyms:

keel, carinate bird, flying bird, bird, carinate,