| 词汇 | peafowl |
| 释义 | peafowl noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /ˈpiː.faʊl/ us /ˈpiː.faʊl/pluralpeafowl a large bird, the male of which has very long tail feathers that it can spread out to show bright colours and patterns: 孔雀 If peafowl peck at a window, put cardboard behind it so they can't see their reflection.如果孔雀啄窗户的话，就在后面放上纸板，这样它们就在玻璃里看不到自己了。 She runs a peafowl sanctuary in Santa Barbara.她在圣巴巴拉经营一个孔雀保护区。 Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images /GettyImages A major complaint against peafowl is their piercing screech. Peafowl tend to roost in trees. When the peafowl are actively seeking a mate, they tend to become aggressive with one another. Other wild birds bird of paradise blackbird blue tit bluebird bluejay flycatcher goldfinch greenfinch honeyeater hoopoe macaw magpie martin mockingbird mynah sparrow squab starling swift swiftlet Examples of peafowlpeafowl There are also young chickens, pheasants, turkeys and peafowl. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Crops like maize, jowar and horse gram grown regularly for cattle are delicacies of the peafowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Moreover, in a feral peafowl population, there is little variation in the number of eyespots in adult males. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The park's many birds include junglefowl, green peafowl and pheasant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Peafowl can also be found throughout neighborhoods surrounding the arboretum. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Molecular research has revealed that peacock-pheasants are not genetically related to pheasants and only distantly to peafowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Pheasants, peafowl, jungle fowls are important birds of this area. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Accommodation was being made ready for a long list of animals and birds, including deer, emu, ostrich, and peafowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like many predators, tigers are opportunistic and may eat much smaller prey, such as monkeys, peafowl and other ground-based birds, hares, porcupines, and fish. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many cities where they have been introduced and gone feral have peafowl management programmes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Peafowl breed readily in captivity and as free-ranging ornamental fowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like other peafowl, crested argus retire on emergent trees above the forest canopy for many hours a day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Peafowl, red junglefowl and grey junglefowl are fairly often found, as are also the green pigeon and duck. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All species of peafowl are believed to be polygamous. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Examples of tournament species include grouse, peafowl, lions, mountain gorillas and elephant seals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of peafowl These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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