peahens

peahens

美 [?pi?hen] 　英 [?pi??hen]

• n.雌孔雀
• 網絡母孔雀；姿色平平的母孔雀；孔雀公主

詞形變化

復數：peahens  

英漢解釋

n.

1. 雌孔雀

英英解釋

n.	1. a large brown bird that is a female peacock

例句

Such displays may have become "obsolete" as a signal to peahens, the team proposed in Animal Behaviour.

炫耀斑點數量對于雌孔雀來說似乎已經“過時”了——Dakin等在《動物行為》中指出。

He later came up with sexual selection: Gaudy peacocks please peahens and pass on their genes.

不久之后，他又提出了性擇理論：雄孔雀通過尾屏取悅雌孔雀，從而傳遞自己的基因。

"It certainly looks like a threshold, " Dakin says, although she doesn't have data on whether individual peahens have a response threshold.

“這看起來很像個閾值。”Dakin說，雖然她還沒有數據能說明雌孔雀是否也有響應閾值。

Peacocks are more beautiful than peahens.

雄孔雀要比雌孔雀漂亮。

The plumage of peacocks attracts peahens. The stag's antlers are there to fight off other stags. And so on.

雄孔雀的羽毛能吸引雌孔雀、雄鹿的鹿角則是用來擊退其它雄鹿。