European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.
Sinônimos
Examples for "peacock"
Examples for "peacock"
1The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
2This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
3Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
4The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
5The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
1We have a variety of the peacock butterfly, that is very rich, with innumerable eyes on the wings.
2Bill Roberts Christchurch Square, Dublin I have noticed a peacock butterfly in the folds of the sitting-room curtains.
3It is studded with self-seeded oxeye daisies, and the peacock butterfly caterpillars are gobbling up my stinging nettles.
4Another well known insect is illustrated in the figure in the upper portion-thepeacock butterfly (Vanessa Io).
5At Knader Wood, near Ballyshannon in Co Donegal, recently I noticed some final instar peacock butterfly larvae on two of which were spiders.
Translations for inachis io