See Also: peafowl(medicine)
peafowl(dictionary)
peafowl(dictionary)

pinacol (iou) and peafowl (iou)


pinacol (iou)



pinacol noun. E20.
[from PINAC(ONE + -OL.]
Chemistry. An alcohol having two hydroxyl groups bonded to adjacent tertiary carbon atoms; spec. the simplest alcohol of this kind, 1,4-dimethylpropan-2,3-diol, (CH3)2C(OH)C(OH)(CH3)2 (also called tetramethyl ethylene glycol).
Comb.: pinacol rearrangement a reaction (as the conversion of pinacol into pinacolone) in which a 1,2-glycol loses water on heating with acid to form a ketone.

peafowl (iou)



peafowl noun. E19.
[from PEA(COCK + FOWL noun.]
Either of two pheasants, Pavo cristatus (also common peafowl, blue peafowl, Indian peafowl), orig. native to the Indian subcontinent and widely kept for the plumage of the male, and (more fully green peafowl) P. muticus of SE Asia. Also (in full Congo peafowl), the pheasant Afropavo congensis of rainforests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire). Cf. PEACOCK, PEAHEN.