(n.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
(n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peacocks , the budget fashion chain, has fallen into administration, putting 9,600 jobs at risk, after a management buyout deal collapsed at the last minute.
(2) As reported previously, Integration Host Factor (IHF) stimulates cII expression but the stimulatory effect is prevented by the NusA protein (Peacock and Weissbach, 1985, Biochem.
(3) I am really looking forward to the next chapter in my coaching career.” In his time at the FA, Peacock has led the Under-17s to two European Championship titles in 2010 and 2014, and has managed over 100 games in Uefa competitions, with a 69% win record.
(4) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(5) And which glory-seeking, peacock-proud youth does not want to stand in the middle for hours and be admired?
(6) The staff at the Peacocks store in Pontypridd were attempting to be as cheerful as always, laughing and joking as they clambered up a ladder to tape a new sale sign ("biggest ever – 20-70% of everything") to the window.
(7) I wasn’t one of the stars, like Pedro [Beardsley] or Ginola.” It took time for Peacock to settle but the second season was significantly better.
(8) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(9) The board has filed an "intention to appoint administrators" for Peacocks and its sister chain Bonmarché which gives them 10 days to put together a plan while it prevents creditors pursuing debts through the courts.
(10) Finally, the reader is reminded how to use the nomogram of Peacock, Robertson and Nordin to evaluate fasting urinary excretion of calcium, and how to use the nomogram of Walton and Bijvoet to estimate the renal threshold phosphate concentration.
(11) Australia Network has just secured the biggest coup of any western media: access to the entire Chinese audience through web-based services, as well as a similar deal with Indonesia,” Peacock wrote in an email to all staff.
(12) At the time of publishing the list stands at 244, including, but certainly not limited to: disturbed balance; blurred vision; cataracts; mass bee extinction; unexplained deaths of cattle, goats, dolphins, worms and sundry other animals; family discord; disoriented echidnas; social problems among peacocks; and eggs without yolks.
(13) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(14) The news came as speculation grew that a huge round of store closures was under discussion at Peacocks, the struggling clothes retailer chaired by Allan Leighton, formerly an Asda director and chairman of Royal Mail.
(15) This followed a string of closures in 2012 including Comet, JJB Sports, Game, Peacocks and Blacks Leisure.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steve Peacock, education specialist at Weightman’s law firm and governor at a Liverpool secondary school These are hard cases for parents to win and expensive to prosecute and defend.
(17) The omission of Morley, following the international retirements of Jamie Peacock and Gareth Ellis, removes what the captain Kevin Sinfield described as "the cornerstone of our pack for the last 10 years".
(18) The players had a training camp there in January and if they need inspiration to strut their stuff, they can look to Barra Funda's resident flock of peacocks.
(19) "Equity markets are thundering lower," said Cameron Peacock, market analyst at IG Markets.
(20) Years later we moved to Paris, where, within my first week, I found an albino peacock.
Pheasant
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
(n.) The ruffed grouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(2) In several groups of galliform birds (chicken, turkey, pheasant and guinea fowl) the presence and function of plasma haptoglobin (Hp) have been studied.
(3) In ring-necked pheasants, maximum body weights were attained at 26 and 20 weeks of age for males and females, respectively.
(4) Sera from the intergeneric hybrids of chicken X turkey, chicken X pheasant, and chicken X quail had two antigenetically distinguishable peaks in the albumin area.
(5) Avian leukosis viruses of subgroups A and F (RAV-A and RAV-F) arose at a low rate after passage of Rous sarcoma virus-Rous-associated virus-0, which is subgroup E, in cells from ring-necked pheasant embryos.
(6) It suggests a trend for pheasants exposed to ahemeral L:D cycles to improve egg production.
(7) The pheasant viruses (PV) were similar to avian leukosis-sarcoma viruses (ALSV) in their gross morphology, in the size of their RNA, in the presence of a virion-associated RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (DNA nucleotidyltransferase; deoxynucleoside triphosphate: DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase; EC 2.7.7.7), and in their growth characteristics.
(8) The immunohistochemical staining technique was used on tissues from pheasants with experimental MSD, on tissues from a pheasant with natural MSD, and on tissues from turkeys with natural HE.
(9) Severe toxin-induced mortality was seen during the first to third weeks with 2.50 and 5.00 ppm aflatoxin (92.5% and 97.5%, respectively), compared with the mortality in control pheasants fed no toxin (0%).
(10) The RIA will measure PRL in several avian species including the chicken, duck, goose, pheasant, pheasant X chicken F1 hybrid, pigeon, quail and rock.
(11) Ethyl mercury p-toluene sulfonanilide (active ingredient of Ceresan M) at a dietary concentration of 30 parts per million (12.5 parts of mercury per million) was lethal to adult ring-necked pheasants.
(12) The genome of ring-necked pheasant virus, an avian oncovirus, is largely homologous to the genomes of chicken oncoviruses except for a specific nonhomology in env, the gene coding for the surface glycoprotein of the virion (J. Tal, D. J. Fujita, S. Kawai, H. E. Varmus, and J. M. Bishop, J. Virol.
(13) In addition splenic material was injected into adult pheasants.
(14) He said: "Unlike the Tories we will have a grouse shoot against racism" in reference to the Tories having auctioned a "fantastic eight-gun pheasant shoot" in Oxfordshire at their summer ball.
(15) We have examined the presence and distribution of RAV-O-related sequences in the DNA of Red Junglefowl and other closely related species of Junglefowl, as well as more distantly related Pheasants and Quail.
(16) Stable traps, each baited with a jackrabbit and either a chicken or a pheasant, collected more than 21,000 mosquitoes in the Sacramento Valley, California, in 1972 and 1973.
(17) Testes weights were recorded for 8 to 34-week-old pheasants and 12 to 30-week-old chukars.
(18) The response of ring-necked pheasants to inoculation with three strains of cell-culture-propagated type II avian adenovirus was examined.
(19) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
(20) Salinomycin at 60 ppm in the feed was highly efficacious and coccidiocidal against all four species, but the salinomycin-medicated pheasants gained the least of all medicated birds.