The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pavonine \Pav"o*nine\, a. [L. pavoninus, fr. pavo a peacock. See Peacock.]
(Zo["o]l.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.
--P. Cleaveland.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the genus ''Pavo'' or its sub-family (taxlink Pavoninae subfamily noshow=1), including the peafowl. 2 Possessing the coloring or iridescence of a peacock feather. 3 Resembling the tail of a peacock. n. 1 tarnish found on some ores and metals which resembles the tail feathers of a peacock. 2 Any bird from the sub-family ''Pavoninæ''.
Usage examples of "pavonine".
Only his brothers, Nemapsychus and Giamantis, and his sister, Pijirantia Pavonine, were before him.
Ketherians rising up with their pavonine wings spread against the dark wall of the Iad.
She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest gold.
The king, seated upon a raised pavonine divan, gazed intently at the prisoner before him.
With her right hand holding her left arm behind her untanned back, the lesser nymphet, a diaphanous darling, would be all eyes, as the pavonine sun was all eyes on the gravel under the flowering trees, while in the midst of that oculate paradise, my freckled and raffish lass skipped, repeating the movements of so many others I had gloated over on the sun-shot, watered, damp-smelling sidewalks and ramparts of ancient Europe.