cassowary tree

  • 1cassowary —   n. emu like bird of Australasia.    ♦ cassowary tree, casuarina …

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  • 2Cassowary plum — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked) …

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  • 3Cassowary — Taxobox name = Cassowary image width = 200px image caption = Southern Cassowary regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Struthioniformes familia = Casuariidae genus = Casuarius genus authority = Brisson, 1760 subdivision ranks …

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  • 4Southern Cassowary — At the The Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary, Port Douglas, Australia Conservation status …

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  • 5casuarina — noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Malay (pohon) kĕsuari, literally, cassowary tree; from the resemblance of its twigs to cassowary feathers Date: 1777 any of a genus (Casuarina of the family Casuarinaceae) of dicotyledonous chiefly… …

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  • 6Fauna of New Guinea — The fauna of New Guinea comprises a large number of species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, invertebrates and amphibians. As the world’s largest and highest tropical island, New Guinea occupies less than 0.5% of world s land surface, yet… …

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  • 7casuariiform — ▪ order of birds Introduction   any member of a group of large, flightless birds (bird) that includes two families native to Australasia. The family Dromaiidae, made up of the single living species of emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), is found only …

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  • 8bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …

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  • 9Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a …

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  • 10Dromaeosauridae — Deuterostomia Dromaeosaurids Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Late Cretaceous, 164–65.5 Ma …

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