Word Meanings - PEACHICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The chicken of the peacock.

Related words: (words related to PEACHICK)

• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• PEACOCK
  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. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by
• PEACOCK THRONE
  1. A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia ; -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.
• CHICKEN-HEARTED
  Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.
• CHICKEN
  1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence
• CHICKEN POX
  A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
• WATER CHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.