Meaning & use
peachick
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Meaning
nouncountablebiology
A baby peafowl, a young peacock or peahen that is still small and has dull brown feathers.
Grammar: Countable: a peachick, two peachicks.
Patterns
- a peachick follows its mother
- a group of peachicks
A tiny peachick hid under its mother's wing.
The zoo announced the birth of three peachicks.
The peachick will not grow its colorful tail for about two years.
Word forms
| plural | peachicks |
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Common combinations
- a newborn peachick
- A newborn peachick can walk within hours of hatching.
- hatch a peachick
- The peahen hatched a single peachick this spring.
- feed the peachicks
- Visitors may not feed the peachicks.
- peachick and peahen
- We saw a peachick walking behind a peahen.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
Commonly confused: peachick or peacock? peachick or peach?
peachick vs peacock
A peacock is the adult male with the showy tail, while a peachick is the baby.
peachick vs peach
A peach is a fruit; the first part of peachick comes from pea, short for peafowl.
Practice
The farmer proudly showed us a ____, a tiny brown baby bird that would one day become a peacock or a peahen.
Choose one answer.
A peachick is a baby peafowl. A fledgling gull is a different bird, and a goose and a pheasant are different adult species.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “peachick”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.