peacock has definitions from the fields of zoology,game bird
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[ noun ] (zoology) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

There have been cooing doves , chattering magpies , thieving jackdaws , a proud peacock , a silly goose , and a harpy_eagle - whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals '' .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

I called the other afternoon on my old friend , Graves_Moreland , the Anglo-American literary critic - his mother was_born in Ohio - who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson_Downs , raising_hell and peacocks , the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old_man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing , such_as human stature , hope , and humor .

Related terms

nymphalid Inachis

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[ noun ] (zoology,game bird) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots

Used in print

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

My host went_over and stared out the window at his peacocks ; then he turned_to me .

Moreland went over to stare at his peacocks again , and_then came_back and sat_down , restively .

Related terms

peafowl

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1609
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