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PRONUNCIATION OF PEACOCK'S TAIL

peacock's tail play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEACOCK'S TAIL

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Peacock's tail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PEACOCK'S TAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of peacock's tail in the English dictionary

The definition of peacock's tail in the dictionary is a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEACOCK'S TAIL

peach stone
peach-blow
peacher
peacherino
peaches-and-cream complexion
peachier
peachiest
peachily
peachiness
peachy
peacoat
peacock
peacock blue
peacock butterfly
peacock feather
peacock ore
peacock-blue
peacockery
peacockish
peacocky

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEACOCK'S TAIL

all-flying tail
cocktail
detail
entail
fat tail
fee tail
fish tail
go into detail
have a tiger by the tail
in detail
long tail
nose to tail
pigtail
ponytail
rat tail
retail
sting in the tail
tail
top and tail
turn tail

Synonyms and antonyms of peacock's tail in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «peacock's tail» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of peacock's tail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

孔雀的尾巴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la cola del pavo real
570 millions of speakers

English

peacock´s tail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोर की पूंछ
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ذيل الطاووس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Хвост павлина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

A cauda de pavão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ময়ূর এর লেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la queue de paon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekor merak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pfauenschwanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

孔雀の尾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공작 의 꼬리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Buntut peacock
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đuôi con công nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மயில் வால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोराची शेपटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tavuskuşu kuyruğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coda di pavone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pawi ogon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Хвіст павича
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coada de paun lui
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουρά παγωνιού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pou se stert
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

påfågel svans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

påfugl hale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peacock's tail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEACOCK'S TAIL»

The term «peacock's tail» is normally little used and occupies the 139.341 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEACOCK'S TAIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peacock's tail

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEACOCK'S TAIL»

Discover the use of peacock's tail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peacock's tail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eyes on the Peacock's Tail
stories from "IQ"! umber the bamaan All Free a folktale from Gujarat Mazzoo Mazzoo a folktale from Kashmir Wrestling Mania a folktale from Punjab Sweet and Salty a folktale from Andhra Pradesh Eyes on the Peacock's Tail a folktale from ...
Vayu Naidu, 1998
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from ...
The peacock's tail came to pose an even greater threat to his peace of mind: 'The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!' ( Darwin, F. 1887. ii. p. 296). For a Darwinian, that splendid tail has a sting in it.
Helena Cronin, 1993
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
Such features seem to defy the adaptionist programme, and even Darwin once remarked: 'The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it makes me sick!' (quoted in Cronin, 1991, p. 113). Nor is the peacock's tail an exception:  ...
John Cartwright, 2000
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The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, ...
The peacock's brightly-colored feathers are said to signify the Gentiles who have been adorned by Christ with “the grace and splendor of many virtuesla The careful and detailed rendering of the “eyes” of the peacock's tail in many of the ...
Debra Hassig, 2013
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Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of ...
Abhinavagupta uses the example of a peacock's tail: ifI take a walk in a park and see a peacock with his beautiful, shining tail, I see the tail in all its grand color, without mentally separating the individual colors from one another. And it is only  ...
Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus, 2011
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Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary ...
The Peacock's Tail: Darwin's Design Dilemma On April 3, 1860, Charles Darwin wrote to his botanist friend Asa Gray, “The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!” (Darwin, 1860). The peacock's impractical  ...
Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach, 2012
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The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture
Darwin, however, did not look on such discussions as fondly as Severn supposed. Privately, he confided, "The sight of a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!"15 As the scholar Helena Cronin has written, the peacock's tail was, ...
Barbara Jean Larson, Fae Brauer, 2009
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in ...
Perhaps the brain evolved primarily to aid in reproduction rather than survival. As Miller explains, "The human mind and the peacock's tail may serve similar biological functions. . . . The peacock's tail evolved because peahens preferred larger, ...
Joan Roughgarden, 2004
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A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk ...
A peacock's tail erect and hound with a wreath Proper. LOVELL. 'Sr gregory Lovell' MS Philpot's Visitations, Norf. * A boar's head couped and erect Argent armed Or out of the mouth a peacock's tail Proper. TYRREL, TYRRELL, of Gipping.
Joan Corder, John Blatchly, 1998
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Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind
The abiding analogy here is to something like the phenomenon of the peacock's tail. The peacock develops a large and wondrous tail which peahens find attractive. Why? Because if Mr Peacock can invest all the resources it takes to grow ...
Greg Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEACOCK'S TAIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peacock's tail is used in the context of the following news items.
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On the hunt for tuna
The rods were set in a fan like a peacock's tail from the aft of the boat, each with differing lengths of line trailing so they wouldn't get tangled. «Statesman Journal, Jul 15»
2
The Do's and Dont's of Getting a Hollywood Smile
When delving deeper into the reasons behind why this was, it was concluded that teeth are viewed as the human equivalent of a peacock's tail ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
3
Velociraptor cousin had flamboyant wings, tiny arms
It may have has ancestors capable of flight, and maintained its wings solely for display purposes like a peacock's tail. “When you look at this ... «RedOrbit, Jul 15»
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Bricks and blooms: Eye-popping Lego sculptures arrive at arboretum
The finished peacock's tail is nearly 7 feet wide. cComments. Got something to say? Start the conversation and be the first to comment. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
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Gaziano & Girling: new shoes on the block
... daubing of complementary and even contrasting polish atop more traditional colours, to create, well, a peacock's tail-feather of dazzling hues. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Recycled canoes form public art along Huron River
It's intended to "call to mind the sun on the horizon, a woman's hand held fan, a Native American headdress or the spread of a peacock's tail ... «MLive.com, Jun 15»
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Rose float to fete Jewel City landmarks
The city's logo will be blended into the peacock's tail feathers. At the back end of the entry will be the façade of the Larry Zarian Transportation ... «Glendale News Press, Jun 15»
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How to tell if he'll be a good father? It's all in his song
The assumption is that a male's song acts as a signal of his quality; in this sense birdsong acts in the same way as a peacock's tail or the ability ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
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Finding balance and a slower pace through tai chi
Then we repeatedly stepped through the movements of Grasping the Sparrow's Tail, which had been the Peacock's Tail in the other class, but I ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Jun 15»
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Oz stylewatch: the coat that's so great, you won't need to wear …
A weighty mixture of fur and silk, the metres-long creation dragged behind her like a peacock's tail as she clutched it coyly to her breast, fully ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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