Tasmanian emu

English

Illustration of a Tasmanian emu.

Noun

Tasmanian emu (plural Tasmanian emus)

1. 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 2000, p. 33:

     The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.