blue peafowl

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   peafowl of India and Ceylon

   SynonymsPavo cristatus

   Broaderpeafowl

Questions about blue peafowl

What does blue peafowl mean?

blue peafowl means "peafowl of India and Ceylon".

What is another word for blue peafowl?

Close synonyms include Pavo cristatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue peafowl a common word?

blue peafowl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.