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Meanings of peacock butterfly in anglès

portuguès
inachis io
català
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European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.

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Examples for "peacock"
Examples for "peacock"
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The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
2
This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919
3
Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
4
The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
Watch Yourself Go By
5
The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
The new yorker
Usage of peacock butterfly in anglès
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We have a variety of the peacock butterfly, that is very rich, with innumerable eyes on the wings.
The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
2
Bill Roberts Christchurch Square, Dublin I have noticed a peacock butterfly in the folds of the sitting-room curtains.
The Irish Times
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It is studded with self-seeded oxeye daisies, and the peacock butterfly caterpillars are gobbling up my stinging nettles.
The Irish Times
4
Another well known insect is illustrated in the figure in the upper portion-thepeacock butterfly (Vanessa Io).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
5
At Knader Wood, near Ballyshannon in Co Donegal, recently I noticed some final instar peacock butterfly larvae on two of which were spiders.
The Irish Times
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A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.
Jacob's Room
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Had the Great Peacock butterfly outstripped and anticipated mankind in this direction?
Social Life in the Insect World
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Peacock butterfly I spotted this beautiful butterfly at the Liffey banks in Chapelizod.
The Irish Times
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Meadows are neck-high in grasses and bounce with meadow brown and peacock butterflies.
The Guardian
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They are probably peacock butterflies which hibernate in a cluster.
The Irish Times
Translations for peacock butterfly
portuguès
inachis io
català
paó