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Definition of Cassowaries
1. cassowary [n] - See also: cassowary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassowaries
| cast cast-iron cast-iron plant cast-off cast-off(a) cast a chill cast a pall cast a shadow cast about cast accounts | cast adrift cast anchor cast around |
Literary usage of Cassowaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1902)
"Matschie on the cassowaries. [Einige Bemerkungen über die Verbreitung und ...
The publication of Mr. Rothschild's elaborate memoir on the cassowaries in the ..."
2. Ostriches and Ostrich Farming by Julius de Mosenthal, James Edmund Harting (1877)
"The Emus—In what respects they differ from the cassowaries—Two species now ...
In the cassowaries the beak is compressed laterally with a high Foot of Emu. ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"Pycraft on the Morphology of the cassowaries and their Allies.1 — In this important
paper, which appears as the second part of Rothschild's ' Monograph of ..."
4. Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Alfred Cort Haddon, Sidney Herbert Ray (1912)
"... CHAPTER X Food of the Papuans—cassowaries—The Native Dog—Question of
Cannibalism—Village Headman—The Social System of the Papuans—The Family—Treatment ..."
5. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"The ostriches, cassowaries, etc. (Ratitae).—The ostriches, familiar to all from
pictures and to some from live individuals in zoological gardens and ..."
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