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A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

A peacock. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a peacock. [R.] Southey.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris).

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.

The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, or Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in th…

g the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

longing to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.