portuguès
inachis io català
paó European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.
Synonyms
Examples for "peacock"
Examples for "peacock"
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The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
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This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
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Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
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The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
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The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
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We have a variety of the peacock butterfly, that is very rich, with innumerable eyes on the wings.
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Bill Roberts Christchurch Square, Dublin I have noticed a peacock butterfly in the folds of the sitting-room curtains.
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It is studded with self-seeded oxeye daisies, and the peacock butterfly caterpillars are gobbling up my stinging nettles.
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Another well known insect is illustrated in the figure in the upper portion-thepeacock butterfly (Vanessa Io).
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At Knader Wood, near Ballyshannon in Co Donegal, recently I noticed some final instar peacock butterfly larvae on two of which were spiders.