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# peacock

«peacock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large male bird with a long, brilliant blue-green tail…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a peacock, peacocks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A peacock is a large male bird with a long, brilliant blue-green tail with «eye» patterns, which it spreads out in a huge fan to attract females. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#m1)

2) Strictly, the peacock is the male; the female is a peahen, and both are peafowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#m2)

3) A person who is vain and shows off how they look can be called a peacock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#m3)

4) A peacock butterfly is a butterfly with eye spots on its wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons the peacock is a famous example of how males show off colourful features to attract a mate, while the plain brown peahen is camouflaged on her nest. Peacocks are the national bird of India. In stories «proud as a peacock» describes someone very pleased with themselves. Phrases: proud as a peacock, peacock feathers, peacock blue, strut like a peacock.

### examples

- The peacock spread its tail in a huge shimmering fan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x1)
- A peacock's tail feathers have spots that look like eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x2)
- The peacock screeched loudly in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x3)
- The peahen is brown, but the peacock is blue and green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x4)
- He strutted around in his new trainers like a peacock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x5)
- She was as proud as a peacock of her painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x6)
- We saw a peacock butterfly on the buddleia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x7)
- The peacock is the national bird of India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x8)
- There stood beneath the tree two handsome peacocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/#x9)

### note

Countable: a peacock, peacocks. Male = peacock, female = peahen, babies = peachicks, all of them = peafowl. Trap: people often call any peafowl a peacock. «Peacock blue» is a bright blue-green colour.

### In the corpora

- [Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «peacock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.