cassowary

How To Use cassowary In A Sentence

• Looking over the balcony at Cassowary Lodge, Atwood watched rare red-necked crakes scratching about in the bushes.
• We also owe a small selection of words for native wildlife to the language: the cassowary, a large flightless bird related to the emu, was called kasuari in Malay.
• Cassowary populations were greatly reduced when Australian sugar cane planters destroyed many of the birds, while New Guinea natives hunt them for meat and keep them in cages so they can use the feathers in clothing.
• Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
• There are not any large mammals in Australia and the cassowary is the biggest animal there! Archive 2008-07-01
• Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
• For example, the cassowary (a large flightless bird) feeds on bright blue and red fruit.
• Looking around, his glance fell on the twigs scattered on the ground where Cassowary had thrown them.
• The cassowary pecks the ground, gobbling fat worms with quick chops of its beak.
• Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance.