peafowl 的定义
plural pea·fowls, pea·fowl.
- any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
更多peafowl例句
- The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) usually lay their large white eggs on the ground in long grass or thick undergrowth.
- But there were many different kinds—not alone of hens and roosters; for there were peafowl, and guineas, and ducks, and turkeys.
- The peafowl is smaller, slenderer, and more graceful than the turkey, and is a little more agile in motion.
- The methods of managing turkeys apply at nearly every point to the management of peafowl.
- The scarcity of peafowl is not due wholly to the expense of procuring them or to the difficulty of rearing them.