Synonyms:
peacock, peacock_butterfly, Inachis_io
Meaning: European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
Synonyms:
peacock
Meaning: male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots
Usage examples
Peacock gave it to me this morning.
"Or the one with the peacock in green and purple.
He's proud as a peacock with a new spread of tail feathers."
There's a lot of hard-backed bugs--beetles, I guess--colored like the brown, blue, and black of a peacock's tail.
With our beautiful English butterflies, the admiral, peacock, and painted lady (Vanessae), as well as many others, the sexes are alike.
I suppose it's unlucky to bring peacock's feathers into a house; anyway, there was a blue-pencilly look in my hostess's eye when I took my departure.
After it came four lines of Chinese girls, fanning the air with peacock fans on long staves, fans of white egret feathers, and ostrich plumes dyed a yellow gold.
Or purple and peacock skies grow dark With a moving locust-tower; Or tawny sand-winds tall and dry, Like hell's red banners beat and fly, When death comes out of Araby, Was Eldred in his hour.
Though a staunch Republican, Mr. Peacock, according to the enthusiastic Professor, is not ashamed of his ancestor King William of Holland, nor of his relatives Lord and Lady Peacock who, it seems, are natives of Scotland.
The Professor remarks in his elaborate preface that Mr. Peacock 'frequently rises to the sublime,' and the two passages quoted above show how keenly critical is his taste in these matters and how well the poet deserves his panegyric.