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Look up: Cassowary

  1. cassowary
    [n] - large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. cassowary
    flightless bird Category: Botany and zoology
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Cassowary
    Cas'so·wa·ry noun ; plural Cassowaries . [ Malay kasuāri .] (Zoology) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius , found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/32

  4. cassowary
    noun large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest
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  5. Cassowary
    • (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defe...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. cassowary
    any of several species of large flightless birds of the Australo-Papuan region. Cassowaries are the only members of the family Casuariidae and belong ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/33

  7. cassowary
    cassowary (kăs'uwâr"ē) , common name for a flightless, swift-running, pugnacious forest bird of Australia and the Malay Archipelago, smaller than the ostrich and emu. The plumage is dark and glossy and the head and neck unfeathered, wattled, and brilliantly colored, with var...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08107

  8. Cassowary
    The cassowary (Casuaridae) are a family of ruminating birds of the order Casuariformes. They are similar to the ostrich, but have characteristic feet with three toes, the inner toe possessing a long sharp claw, unusually strong legs, a bare head and neck and a helmet on the head which is larger on t...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. cassowary
    Large flightless bird, genus Casuarius, of the family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, found in New Guinea and northern Australia, usually in forests. Related to the emu, the cassowary has a bare head with a horny casque, or helmet, on top, and brightly-coloured skin on the n...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  10. Cassowary
    The `cassowaries` are ratites, very large flightless birds in the genus Casuarius native to the tropical forests of New Guinea, nearby islands and northeastern Australia.<ref name="Clements, J (2007)">Clements, J (2007)--> There are three extant species recognized today. The most...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary

  11. Cassowary
    (software) `Cassowary` is an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities. Constraints may be either requirements or preferences. Client code specifies the constraints to be maintained, and the solver updates the constrained vari...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary



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