peacock

Definition of peacock in English English dictionary: A male or female pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, whose males have extravagant tails; {n} a fowl very beatiful in its fethers; male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot; A peacock is a large bird. The male has a very large tail covered with blue and green spots, which it can spread out like a fan. peacocks strutting slowly across the garden. peacock feathers. Any of three species (family Phasianidae) of resplendent birds of open lowland forests. Blue, or Indian (Pavo cristatus), and green, or Javanese (P. muticus), peacock males are 35-50 in. (90-130 cm) long and have a 60-in. (150-cm) train of metallic green tail feathers tipped with an iridescent eyespot ringed with blue and bronze. The train is erected, fanned out, and vibrated during courtship. Females (peahens) are duller and have no train. The male forms a harem of two to five hens, which lay their eggs in a depression in the ground. The blue and green male Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis) has a short rounded tail; the reddish and brown hen has a topknot; European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot; A male or female pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, famous for the extravagant tails of the males; In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl; {i} type of bird with a large ornate tail; male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots; The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies; pocock; congenial
Peacock Throne: The former Persian monarchy
Peacock Throne: A golden Mughal throne, once used in Persia
peacock blue: A brilliant, dark blue-green colour
peacock blue colour:.
peacock blue: Of a brilliant blue-green colour
peacock worm: A particular species of worm, Sabella pavonina
Peacock worm can be used for many things.
peacock worm: A worm of this species
What a pretty peacock worm!.
peacock worms: plural form of peacock worm
peacock blue: Something that is peacock blue is a deep, bright, greeny-blue in colour
peacock throne: A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia (later Iran); - - so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems
peacock-blue: bright greenish blue
peacock-throne: the golden throne of former kings of Delhi; stolen by the Persians in 1739 and subsequently lost; symbol of the former Shah of Iran
European peacock: Colorful butterfly with the taxonomic name Inachis io
Indian Peacock: A male Pavo cristatus
Indian Peacock: A member of the aforementioned species
Indian Peacock: Pavo cristatus, a species of peacock native to the Indian subcontinent
proud as a peacock: Extremely proud
peacocks: plural of peacock
A peacock: pajock
A peacock: po
A peacock: pavone
Thomas Love Peacock: a British writer and poet who used satire (=a way of writing in which you make someone seem funny in order to show their faults) to criticize the politicians and writers of his time. His most famous works are novels such as Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey (1785-1866). born Oct. 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, Eng. died Jan. 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Middlesex English novelist and poet. For most of his life Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy B. Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron
a peacock in his pride: person showing off
proud as a peacock: displaying haughty self-confidence (like a peacock with his tail feathers spread)