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PEAFOWL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peafowl mean?
• PEAFOWL (noun)
The noun PEAFOWL has 1 sense:
1. very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird
Familiarity information: PEAFOWL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bird of Juno; peafowl
Hypernyms ("peafowl" is a kind of...):
pheasant (large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peafowl"):
pea-chick; peachick (a young peafowl)
peacock (male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots)
peahen (female peafowl)
blue peafowl; Pavo cristatus (peafowl of India and Ceylon)
green peafowl; Pavo muticus (peafowl of southeast Asia)
Holonyms ("peafowl" is a member of...):
genus Pavo; Pavo (peafowl)
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