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A peahen is the female of the family. She is much plainer than the male — mostly brown and grey-green, with a short tail and no great fan. That plainness is the point, biologically: she sits on the eggs on the ground, so being hard to see keeps her and the chicks safe. In stories and in science writing the peahen usually appears as the one doing the choosing: the male spreads his enormous tail, and she looks him over and decides. That is a famous example in books about evolution, so you may meet the word in a reading passage before you ever meet the bird. Outside those contexts the word is uncommon, because most people just say '' for the female too. Use 'peahen' when the difference between male and female actually matters to what you are saying.
母孔雀、雌孔雀
組成pea + hen. 'Pea' is the old word for this bird, from Latin pāvō — not the vegetable. 'Hen' is the ordinary English word for a female bird, as in a hen chicken.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
peahennoun/ˈpiː.hɛn/
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A female peafowl.
- It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。