Pavonine

Quick meaning: Pavonine is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or its family Pavonidae, including the peafowl.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or its family Pavonidae, including the peafowl.

More Meanings

1. Possessing the coloring or iridescence of a peacock feather.
2. Showy, like a peacock's tail; exhibiting vanity.
3. Tarnish found on some ores and metals which resembles the tail feathers of a peacock.
4. Any bird from the family Pavonidae.

Example Sentences

A list of acknowledgements can be a pavonine affair, an excuse more to flaunt than to thank. I have tried to avoid that here. But I must thank my excellent colleagues at QMUL,[…]

362. Massive BORNITE, having a pavonine purple tarnish; with dolomite. Kenmare mine, Co. Kerry, Ireland. 363. Massive BORNITE, having a pavonine purple tarnish; with malachite and ochre.

In D. kahli the blue of the wings on the upper side is deep pavonine blue, or intense cobalt, confined on the anterior wing to a broad patch above the lower margin near the lower angle, and not invading the cell;[…]

It resembled from a distance porphyry, while much of it had a pavonine lustre, like the argentiferous galena of the Silver States in North America. The great weight suggested one mass of metal, and part of it had evidently been[…]

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