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peahen

/pee-hen/US // ˈpiˌhɛn //

豌豆,豌豆苗,豌豆黄,豌豆荚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the female peafowl.

Examples

  • Pea′chick, the young of the pea-fowl; Pea′cock-fish, a variegated labroid fish; Pea′-fowl, the peacock or peahen.

  • His son went into the world to search everywhere for his peahen, taking only one servant to serve him.

  • At length he resolved to go and look after his peahen, and never to come back again unless he should find her.

  • The peahen usually lays from four to six eggs—rarely more than eight or ten.

  • Then the girl turned again into a peahen, and flew away with the other eight.