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Kangaroo vs Emu - What's the difference?

kangaroo | emu |

As nouns the difference between kangaroo and emu

is that kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia while emu is a large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

As a verb kangaroo

is to practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.

As an abbreviation emu is

electromagnetic unit.

As an initialism EMU is

with respect to the European Union: Economic and Monetary Union.

kangaroo

English

(wikipedia kangaroo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
  • * 1770 , (James Cook), Journal , 4 August 1770 [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106]:
    • Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo', or ' Kanguru […].
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis :
    • In the woods are the kanguroo , the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
  • (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

    • Synonyms

    * (Macropodidae) macropod, roo * (jacket) bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

    Derived terms

    * antelope kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo * banded kangaroo * brush kangaroo * eastern grey kangaroo * forest kangaroo * giant kangaroo * great kangaroo * hare-kangaroo * kangaroo apple * kangaroo ball * kangaroo bar * kangaroo bear * kangaroo-beetle * kangaroo care * kangaroo closure * kangaroo code * kangaroo court * Kangaroo Defence, Kangaroo Defense * kangaroo-dog * kangaroo-fly * kangaroo-foot plant * kangaroo grass * kangaroo hare * kangaroo-hop * (Kangaroo Hoppet) * kangaroo-hound * (Kangaroo Island) * kangaroo jerboa * kangaroo justice * kangaroo meat * kangaroo mother care, kangaroo mother method * kangaroo mouse * kangaroo paw * kangaroo ship * kangaroo rat * kangaroo route * kangaroo's-foot, kangaroo's-foot plant * kangaroo-shoot * kangaroo-shooter * kangaroo-shooting * kangaroo skin * kangaroo-thorn * Kangaroo Tour * kangaroo trial * kangaroo unicycle * kangaroo vine * kangaroo word * musk kangaroo * rat-kangaroo * red kangaroo * rock kangaroo * roo * tree kangaroo * western grey kangaroo

    See also

    * joey * marsupial * (Resemblance of the folk-etymologies ) * wallaby

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
  • To hunt kangaroo.

    • References

    * , Australian Aboriginal Words , Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3 * ----

    emu

    English

    Alternative forms

    * emeu (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae .

    • External links

    * ("emu" on Wikipedia) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • electromagnetic unit.
  • * 1943 , Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics , p. 530:
    • A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu , 5 cm apart.
  • * 1959 , American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts , p. 38:
    • The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu /cm3.
  • * 1974 , William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein , p. 168:
    • The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
  • * 1976 , John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin , p. 109:
    • Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu /g.
  • * 2005 , Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction , p. 39:
    • Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu'/g, '''emu'''/cm3 or ' emu /mole.
  • (computing, video games, informal) emulator
  • * 2005', "Dane L. Galden at at", ''Could this be used for classic '''emus on GBA?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.video.classic )
    • Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

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