英语词汇“common peafowl”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Either of two crested and long-legged Asian birds of the genus Pavo (family Phasianidae), which have striking plumage and (in the male) a very long tail which can erected and fanned out to display its eye-like markings: (a) the common P. cristatus, native to South Asia and widely kept for ornament (also common peafowl, blue peafowl, Indian peafowl); (b) (more fully green peafowl) P. muticus of South-East Asia. Also: (in full Congo peafowl) the related Afropavo congensis of rainforests in the central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cf. peacock n. 1a, peahen n.

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c1790 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) I. 222 I don't know whether you are all out giddy gay and chirriping like Linnets and yellow-Hammers or sitting at home soberly like pretty Bantams and Peafowl on your Perches.

1804 T. Williamson Oriental Field Sports 98 There could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls,..within sight of the spot where I stood.

1824 R. Hodgkinson Jrnl. 12 May in Lancashire Gentleman (1992) ix. 246 The Pea-fowl, they said, must be given away.

1888 B. M. Croker Diana Barrington ix Twilight was falling, and the cries of the jungle-cock and pea-fowl were hushed.

1952 F. O'Connor Let. in Habit of Being (1979) 43 I..have just ordered myself a pair of peafowl and four peachicks.

1992 Time 20 Jan. 25/3 The flock—often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree—descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in 1925.

2001 Trav. Afr. Autumn 99/4 Salonga NP [= National Park] is home to a number of endemic species, such as the Congo peafowl, Grimm's duiker and Congo clawless otter.

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释义	> as lemmas common peafowl Either of two crested and long-legged Asian birds of the genus Pavo (family Phasianidae), which have striking plumage and (in the male) a very long tail which can erected and fanned out to display its eye-like markings: (a) the common P. cristatus, native to South Asia and widely kept for ornament (also common peafowl, blue peafowl, Indian peafowl); (b) (more fully green peafowl) P. muticus of South-East Asia. Also: (in full Congo peafowl) the related Afropavo congensis of rainforests in the central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cf. peacock n. 1a, peahen n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > paro cristatus (peafowl) peaeOE peafowlc1790 pavonine1895 c1790 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) I. 222 I don't know whether you are all out giddy gay and chirriping like Linnets and yellow-Hammers or sitting at home soberly like pretty Bantams and Peafowl on your Perches. 1804 T. Williamson Oriental Field Sports 98 There could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls,..within sight of the spot where I stood. 1824 R. Hodgkinson Jrnl. 12 May in Lancashire Gentleman (1992) ix. 246 The Pea-fowl, they said, must be given away. 1888 B. M. Croker Diana Barrington ix Twilight was falling, and the cries of the jungle-cock and pea-fowl were hushed. 1952 F. O'Connor Let. in Habit of Being (1979) 43 I..have just ordered myself a pair of peafowl and four peachicks. 1992 Time 20 Jan. 25/3 The flock—often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree—descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in 1925. 2001 Trav. Afr. Autumn 99/4 Salonga NP [= National Park] is home to a number of endemic species, such as the Congo peafowl, Grimm's duiker and Congo clawless otter. extracted from peafowln. < as lemmas
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