CASSOWARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cassowary mean? 

• CASSOWARY (noun)
  The noun CASSOWARY has 1 sense:

1. large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest

  Familiarity information: CASSOWARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASSOWARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cassowary" is a kind of...):

flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Holonyms ("cassowary" is a member of...):

Casuarius; genus Casuarius (type and sole genus of the Casuaridae: cassowaries)