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argus

[ US /ˈɑɹɡəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant

How To Use argus In A Sentence

  • The expedition team successfully erected a new research station at Dome Argus (Dome A), the pole's highest icecap, which is 4,093 meters above sea level. Undefined
  • Several other Argus executives were also shunted sideways.
  • Usually shy and retiring, the crested argus is not easy to observe.
  • Though the argus pheasant is not as colorful as its relatives the peacock and the palawock pheasant, it is still an interesting looking bird.
  • Male argus pheasants impress with an involved dance, spreading their wings to form a saucer for a finale.
  • Besides, the collected foliage of the trees, when gazed at from beneath, presents a species of ocellation, to which that of the argus-pheasant is in some way assimilated. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
  • A local editor for the Akron Argus and reporter for the Cleveland Leader, Clemens dubbed the hurler '' the Stone-Throwing Ghost. '' Undefined
  • I've had meadow argus, a species you find all over the world, around my daisies.
  • When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard. From Place to Place
  • ‘We've photographed rhinoceros hornbills and great argus pheasants before but when we found that we'd photographed a Sumatran ground cuckoo, we couldn't believe it,’ said field leader Yoan Dinata of Fauna and Flora International Indonesia.
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