Definitions
Etymologies
- Middle English pohen, pehenne : po, peacock; see peacock + hen, female bird; see hen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The brown female peacock, known as a peahen, has been on the loose in north Edmonton for the past couple days after escaping from her owner's home.”
“Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.”
“Cutting the tails of peacocks short prevents them from attracting peahens, but having a slightly larger tail than a rival does not make much difference, because the peahen cannot tell the difference.”
“In May, a peahen escaped from the Bronx Zoo and was meandering around the streets of the Bronx before being corralled back to safety.”
“The peacock is managing and focusing peahen attention with his feathers, so what we have called "mind" has been involved in evolution for a very long time.”
The Huffington Post: Jason Silva: Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere
“An escaped peahen with green feathers found her way back into custody at the Bronx Zoo amid much fanfare Wednesday, leaving zoo officials to grapple with a problem that's getting less attention on the public stage: deep city budget cuts.”
“Stupid woman was all puffed up like a peahen, bragging that her instructions were to give it only to Dawson.”
“The peacocks may flail their gorgeous feathers, but it's the dull peahen who decides which of the posturing lot is healthiest and most likely to provide the necessary goods and services to support the trying matter of bearing and raising offspring.”
“Responding to a call, animal control officers found a peacock and a peahen.”
“A mother peahen scurried across her driveway with a new batch of chicks.”
The Wall Street Journal: Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peahen’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Animals (besides pottos)
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robin, wagtail, frog, bunny, pronk, rabbit, fur, badger, mouse, bee, crepuscular, purr and 140 more...
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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shingle, poise, alabaster, soft, languid, vacuous, requiem, lethargy, lucid, slake, plutonium, damasked and 88 more...
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