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# peahen

«peahen» in Mova's school dictionary: **A female peafowl** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a peahen, peahens)

### meaning for a pupil

A female peafowl. She is mostly brown and grey, without the huge colourful tail of the male peacock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on animals and adaptation, the peahen's dull colours help her hide while sitting on her eggs; the male peacock shows off his bright tail to attract her. People often say "peacock" for both, but the female is a peahen. The babies are called peachicks.

### examples

- The peahen sat quietly on her eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x1)
- Peahens are brown, so they are hard to spot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x2)
- The peacock spread his tail to impress the peahen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x3)
- We saw a peahen and three peachicks at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x4)
- A peahen does not have a long, colourful tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x5)
- The peahen called loudly to her chicks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peahen/#x6)

### note

Countable: a peahen, peahens. Male: peacock; female: peahen; both together: peafowl; babies: peachicks. Myth: not all "peacocks" are male; that word is often used wrongly for both.

### Trees and pragmatics

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