crow pheasant
- noun
- Indian
:
pavón cuervo
- The crow pheasant is often seen searching for insects among the tall grasses.
Examples
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Look at that crow pheasant!
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With its deep booming call, the crow pheasant can be heard from a surprising distance.
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Farmers sometimes spot a crow pheasant gliding low over their rice fields at dawn.
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Wow, a crow pheasant!
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The crow pheasant, known for its striking black plumage, was seen searching for food in the underbrush.
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In the early morning, the crow pheasant can often be heard calling in the dense forests of India.
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As we walked along the trail, a crow pheasant suddenly appeared, its long tail trailing behind it.
Synonyms
A large bird like a crow that lives in India and China
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both words are familiar bird names, so a learner who knows 'crow' and 'pheasant' can infer this refers to a kind of bird with features of both (e.g., dark/ crow-like coloration and a pheasant-like body or tail). The precise taxonomic sense (a ground-dwelling cuckoo species with specific behaviors) is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts, so the relation is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Crow pheasant comes from how the bird looks: it has shiny black feathers like a crow and a long tail like a pheasant, and it often walks on the ground instead of flying high. So the name refers to 'a large ground bird with black feathers and a long tail'.
