peahen

How to use peahen in a sentence

• Pea′chick, the young of the pea-fowl; Pea′cock-fish, a variegated labroid fish; Pea′-fowl, the peacock or peahen.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• His son went into the world to search everywhere for his peahen, taking only one servant to serve him.

  Serbian Folk-lore | Anonymous

• At length he resolved to go and look after his peahen, and never to come back again unless he should find her.

  Serbian Folk-lore | Anonymous

• The peahen usually lays from four to six eggs—rarely more than eight or ten.

  Our Domestic Birds | John H. Robinson

• Then the girl turned again into a peahen, and flew away with the other eight.

  Serbian Folk-lore | Anonymous