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Definition of Pea-chick

1. Noun. A young peafowl.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea-chick

PDA PDD PDE4D3 phosphodiesterase PDFLP PDGF PDI PDL pdl PDLL PDQ

PDR pe pe-tsai pea pea pea-chick (current term) pea-green pea-souper peaberry peabird

Peabody peabody bird peace peace peace-loving peaceable peaceableness peaceablenesses peaceably peaced

Literary usage of Pea-chick

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1. The Brain as an Organ of Mind by Henry Charlton Bastian (1880)
"In order to hatch the pea-chick, she had to sit one week longer than is requisite to hatch an ordinary chick ...... The object with which I mude this ..."

2. A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of The Essay on the by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... showy, splendid, as that bird, is at all times; the additional term cock denotes the male of this fowl, the female is pea-hen, the young, pea-chick; ..."

3. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... lyf in the sense of life, but as bjf, dear, friendly feeling, friend, favourite, intimate. The dutch pauw, our pea, as in pea-chick, pea-hen, pea-cock, ..."

4. Bombay Ducks: An Account of Some of the Every-day Birds and Beasts Found in by Douglas Dewar, Frederick Durand Stirling Fayrer (1906)
"I was therefore restricted to a diet of chapatti and dove, varied occasionally by a pea-chick, marked down and shot sleeping after the shades of night had ..."

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