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Definition of cassowary
cassowaries
: any of a genus (Casuarius) of large ratite birds chiefly of New Guinea and northern Australia that have a horny casque on the head and are closely related to the emu
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Louie’s parents would have measured some 25 feet long and weighed more than three tons, Erika Engelhaupt writes for National Geographic, and likely would have resembled the giant cassowary.
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Emus are a stately five to six feet (one to two meters) long, and cassowaries and greater rheas aren’t far behind.
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Today’s ostriches, rheas, and cassowaries are not substitutes for the terror birds, just as the fact that birds are living dinosaurs provides little solace for those who have the impossible wish of seeing a living Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus.
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Origin and Etymology of cassowary
Malay kĕsuari, from an Austronesian language of the Moluccas
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