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Large ornamental bird
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peafowl
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) A pheasant of the genus ''Pavo'' or ''Afropavo'', notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock. The cry is "meow" (like cats), "kee-o" or "iyaan".
Wikipedia
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The peafowl include two Asiatic bird species (the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java) and one African species (the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin ) of bird in the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From terns to peafowl , there is a kind of continuum of different criteria. ▪ If the theory is correct, the females in a species like peafowl must prefer those males with the most exaggerated tails.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird [syn: bird of Juno ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peafowl \Pea"fowl`\, n. [See Peacock .] (Zo["o]l.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.
Usage examples of peafowl.
Prince again slept under the apple-tree and awoke just before midnight to hear the whirr of wings and see the nine peafowl come flying down from the sky.
She jumped up, lifted her arms above her head, changed into a peafowl, and without another word flew off with the other eight and vanished in the sky.
Prince and his man wandered hither and thither over the world inquiring everywhere for news of nine peafowl one of whom was a lovely maiden.
Then to-morrow morning when you go down to the lake with him to see the nine peafowl slip it out and blow it on the back of his neck.
The next morning down at the lake just as the nine peafowl came flying into sight he crept up behind the Prince and blew the bellows on the back of his neck.
Prince sank into a deep sleep from which the ninth peafowl was unable to arouse him.
Prince waited for the appearance of the nine peafowl he galloped madly along the shore of the lake hoping in this way to ward off the strange sleep.
But the moment the nine peafowl appeared in the sky he was so delighted that he drew rein and the treacherous serving man was able to slip up behind him and blow the magic bellows on his neck.
So again he slept soundly while the ninth peafowl fluttered about his head and tried vainly to arouse him.
Never again would she be changed into a peafowl at the whim of a wicked dragon, never again be separated from her loved one.
Royal Navy called this place HMS Peafowl, the sailors called it HMS Piss-up.
I looked up as I ran under some trees, otherwise peafowl might excrete on me.
I took up a shot gun, and, ordering the elephant to follow, strolled across some fields to a low scrub-covered hill where I thought I might pick up a few partridges or a peafowl before dusk.
Leaving her on the marble bench, with its carvings of pheasants and peafowl and flowers that had not blossomed here in ten summers, Ingold bundled the horrible kill into one of the hempen sacks he habitually carried, and hung the thing from the branch of a sycamore dying at the edge of the slunch, wreathed in such spells as would keep rats and carrion feeders at bay until they could collect it on their outward journey.
The sun was shining, the birds singing, the fountains splashing, the peafowl strutting before he had mounted the dais to his bed, too exhausted to hunt out his pajamas from whatever mammoth mahogany commode they had been placed in by the newly attentive servants.