Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female peafowl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hen or female peafowl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The hen or female peafowl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female peafowl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun female peafowl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The brown female peacock, known as a peahen, has been on the loose in north Edmonton for the past couple days after escaping from her owner's home.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Ssmith12 2009
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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Cutting the tails of peacocks short prevents them from attracting peahens, but having a slightly larger tail than a rival does not make much difference, because the peahen cannot tell the difference.
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