Here Cooney calls Peter Osgood "pavonine", which my dictionary tells me means "of or resembling a peacock". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference
A quick twist took Agia out of her pavonine gown; it lay about her brown, dusty feet like a heap of precious stones. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
It suggested Thecla's book, in which I had read it; and that, in turn, the great volume of pavonine leather the old Autarch had shown me when I had asked him the way to the garden, when he, having been told of me, supposed that I had arrived to replace him and would go to plead for Urth at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill, genteel scream. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
The bas-reliefs on this low screen are groups of peacocks and lions, two face to face on each panel, rich and fantastic beyond description, though not expressive of very accurate knowledge either of leonine or pavonine forms. From Wordnik.com. [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference
Some bird species restricted to this ecoregion or found in few other places in Amazonia include ashy-tailed swifts (an austral migrant, Chaetura andrei), blue-tufted starthroats (Heliomaster furcifer), pavonine quetzals (Pharomachrus pavoninus), white-eared jacamars (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis), endemic ochre-striped antpittas (Grallaria dignissima), curassows (Mitu salvini), a terrestrial bird, and golden-winged tody-flycatchers (Todirostrum calopterum). From Wordnik.com. [Solimões-Japurá moist forest] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
Tachyphonus spp.), woodcreepers (Xyphorhynchus spp.), pavonine quetzals (Pharomachrus pavoninus), curasows (Crax globulosa, Nothocrax urumutum, Mitu tuberosa), and tinamous (Crypturellus spp. From Wordnik.com. [Juruá-Purus moist forests] Reference
The moist forests also have great diversity, including white-cheeked pintail Anas bahamensis, aplomado falcon Falco femoralis, brown-throated parakeet Aratinga pertinax, pavonine cookoo Dromococcyx pavoninus, vermiculated screech owl Otus guatemalae, burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, five species of emeralds and hummingbirds, chestnut-tipped toucan Aulacorhynchus derbianus, smoke-colored peewee Contopus fumigatus, orange-crowned oriole Icterus auricapillus, gray seedeater Sporophila intermedia, two-banded warbler Basileuterus bivittatus and black-backed water-tyrant Fluvicola albiventer (Sears 2001a). From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
A number of species have a restricted distribution; however, including white-cheeked pintails (Anas bahamensis), aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis), brown-throated parakeets (Aratinga pertinax), pavonine cookoos (Dromococcyx pavoninus), vermiculated screech owls (Otus guatemalae), burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia), five species of emeralds and hummingbirds in the Amazilia genera, chestnut-tipped toucans (Aulacorhynchus derbianus), smoke-colored peewees (Contopus fumigatus), orange-crowned orioles (Icterus auricapillus), gray seedeaters (Sporophila intermedia), two-banded warblers (Basileuterus bivittatus), and black-backed water-tyrants (Fluvicola albiventer). From Wordnik.com. [Guayanan Highlands moist forests] Reference
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