peafowl

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• peafowl — noun павлин; пава …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

• Peafowl — Pea fowl , n. [See {Peacock}.] (Zo[ o]l.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• peafowl — 1> зоол. павлин (Pavo cristatus) …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

• Peafowl — Taxobox name = Peafowl image width = 250px image caption = An Indian Blue Peacock (rear) courts a peahen (front) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Galliformes familia = Pavoninidae genus = Rheinardiasubdivision ranks =… …   Wikipedia

• peafowl — ˈpi:faul сущ. павлин; пава Syn : peacock, peahen (зоология) павлин (Pavo cristatus) peafowl павлин; пава …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

• peafowl — noun Etymology: pea (as in peacock) + fowl Date: 1804 either of two very large terrestrial pheasants (Pavo cristatus and P. muticus) of southeastern Asia and India that are often reared as ornamental fowls …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• peafowl — noun /ˈpiːˌfaʊl/ A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock. The cry is meow (like cats), kee o or iyaan . See Also: peacock, peahen, peachick …   Wiktionary

• peafowl — [ piːfaʊl] 1) Общая лексика: пава, павлин 2) Биология: павлин (Pavo) 3) Зоология: павлин (Pavo cristatus) …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• peafowl — [ piːfaʊl] павлин; пава …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь

• Peafowl (software) — Peafowl is a light weight persistent queue server that speaks the memcached protocol. It is a Python port of the Starling project. See also * Starling (software) External links * [http://code.google.com/p/peafowl/ Peafowl project page on Google… …   Wikipedia