Tasmanian emu
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Noun
[edit]Tasmanian emu (plural Tasmanian emus)
- An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.
- 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33:
- The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.