peacock

«peacock» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a large male bird with a long, brilliant blue-green tail… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a peacock, peacocks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A peacock is a large male bird with a long, brilliant blue-green tail with «eye» patterns, which it spreads out in a huge fan to attract females. tree →

2) Strictly, the peacock is the male; the female is a peahen, and both are peafowl. tree →

3) A person who is vain and shows off how they look can be called a peacock. tree →

4) A peacock butterfly is a butterfly with eye spots on its wings. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A bird brought on King Solomon's ships from far lands, a sign of his great wealth. Interpretation: The tradition reads Solomon's imported treasures as a sign of his wisdom and wealth, as God had promised. In the primary lessons: In science lessons the peacock is a famous example of how males show off colourful features to attract a mate, while the plain brown peahen is camouflaged on her nest. Peacocks are the national bird of India. In stories «proud as a peacock» describes someone very pleased with themselves. Phrases: proud as a peacock, peacock feathers, peacock blue, strut like a peacock.

examples

• For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (Writings 2CH.9.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (Prophets 1KI.10.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• The peacock spread its tail in a huge shimmering fan. tree →
• A peacock's tail feathers have spots that look like eyes. tree →
• The peacock screeched loudly in the park. tree →
• The peahen is brown, but the peacock is blue and green. tree →
• He strutted around in his new trainers like a peacock. tree →
• She was as proud as a peacock of her painting. tree →
• We saw a peacock butterfly on the buddleia. tree →
• The peacock is the national bird of India. tree →
• There stood beneath the tree two handsome peacocks. tree →

note

Countable: a peacock, peacocks. Male = peacock, female = peahen, babies = peachicks, all of them = peafowl. Trap: people often call any peafowl a peacock. «Peacock blue» is a bright blue-green colour.

In the corpora

• Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «peacock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.