Crossword-Solution: PEAHENS
We have 20 clues for the answer “PEAHENS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Birds with colorful mates | 1 answer |
| Strutters' mates | 1 answer |
| Showy fowl's mates | 1 answer |
| Showy fowl's harem | 1 answer |
| Showy birds' mates | 1 answer |
| Proud birds' mates | 1 answer |
| Ones involved in an elaborate courtship | 1 answer |
| Female birds with showy mates | 1 answer |
| Certain pheasants | 1 answer |
| Birds with showy mates | 1 answer |
| Audience for some tail-feather shaking | 1 answer |
| Female pheasants | 2 answers |
| Female fowls | 2 answers |
| Female birds | 2 answers |
| Some fowl | 3 answers |
| Certain fowl | 3 answers |
| Pheasants' kin | 4 answers |
| FEMALE fowl | 4 answers |
| A ___ OF PHEASANTS | 7 answers |
| ___ Birds | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PEAHENS (5)
More than a score of peacocks (there are altogether thirty at the farm), a proper contingent of peahens, and a great multitude that I could not number of more ordinary barn-door fowls, were all feeding together on this little open lawn among the beeches.
Heron should not be forgotten, namely, that his peahens, when debarred from access to the pied peacock, would not unite with any other male, and during that season produced no offspring.
Men are vainer than women, just as peacocks are vainer than peahens; and Hereward was--alas for him!--a specially vain man.
Let women choose their mates, and they might go as plain as peahens; and men would strut about, displaying wattles, combs and argus-eyed plumes." "Women would be less beautiful if they proposed?" "Some could not be, I fear." He pulled down his brows, considering the proposition, then shook his head positively, with a little sigh.
Here has our master been a-glorifying and a-velveting and a-silking himself, and a-peacocking and a-spreading to catch her eye for a dozen year, till he hasn't an eye left in his own tail to flourish among the peahens, and all along o' you, Monna Giovanna, all along o' you! ELISABETTA.
Quotes with PEAHENS (1)
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1997–2023).