peafowl

基本解釋

Peafowl fly well despite their size, and roost in trees at night.
孔雀不琯大小，都善於飛行，晚上在樹上棲息。
Dakin and Montgomerie have now found similar results in two peafowl populations in Canada and one in the United States.
Dakin和Montgomerie在對(duì)兩個(gè)加拿大的孔雀種群和一個(gè)美國的孔雀種群的研究中也發(fā)現(xiàn)了相似的結(jié)果。
A panda in a zoo in Wuhan has killed a Blue Peafowl, a large and brightly colored bird. This is the first time for several years such an accident has happened, Changjiang Daily reported.
據(jù)《長江日?qǐng)?bào)》報(bào)道，近日，武漢動(dòng)物園一衹大熊貓咬死了一衹藍(lán)孔雀，這是近年來首次出現(xiàn)的意外情況。
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a large bird, the male of which has very long tail feathers that it can spread out to show bright colours and patterns

either of two large pheasants, Pavo cristatus (blue peafowl) of India and Ceylon and P. muticus (green peafowl) of SE Asia. The males (peacocks) have a characteristic bright plumage &rarrsee peacock