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Java peacocks

Java peacocks is the plural of Java peacock.

Meaning of Java peacock

Noun

Java peacock (plural Java peacocks)

  1. (obsolete) green peafowl
    • The place was, however, famous for peacocks, and my boy soon shot several of these magnificent birds, whose flesh we found to be tender, white, and delicate, and similar to that of a turkey. The Java peacock is a different species from that of India, the neck being covered with scale-like green...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 167

Questions about Java peacocks

What is Java peacocks the plural of?
Java peacocks is the plural of Java peacock.

Words near Java peacocks in the dictionary

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  3. Java mouse-deer
  4. Java mouse-deers
  5. Java peacock
  6. Java peacocks
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  8. Java peppers
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  10. Java plums
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