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