pheasant
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- noun
- /ˈfɛzənt/
:
faisán
- While walking through the tall grass, I spotted a beautiful pheasant displaying its colorful feathers.
- ring-necked pheasant
- hunt pheasants
- pheasant hunting
All right first of all, who thinks an overly excitable young dog is going to calm down on a pheasant hunt with other dogs?
- All right first of all, who thinks an overly excitable young dog is going to calm down on a pheasant hunt with other dogs?
- I mean, we had dozens of chickens and geese and ducks, pheasant, I mean, pheasants, quail, Guinea hen, we had everything in between.
- Chickens, ducks, geese, Guinea hens, pheasants, quail, raised Chesapeake Bay retrievers, cows, horses, everything.
Examples
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As I maneuvered around a snow-laden bush, a pheasant exploded in the air...
Academic text (1993) -
Look, we've caught ourselves a pheasant.
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Should be back just in time for the pheasant season.
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You shot a pheasant yourself?
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Do you remember the evening after the pheasant hunt?
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My daddy used to hunt pheasant.
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The cry of a copper pheasant focuses my attention on a small island.
Fiction book (1993) -
What happens to the pheasants that my son will be shooting?
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We used to go out to Herb's to hunt pheasant.
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Then he told me how many pheasants he'd shot on one hunting trip in Italy.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A large colorful bird whose male has a long showy tail
A large bird with bright feathers, a long tail, and a white ring on its neck often found in fields
A common bird with bright feathers and a white ring on its neck
A group of pheasant species, including the common pheasant
A group of birds that includes typical pheasants like the common pheasant
A bright crested bird called the golden pheasant from western China and central Asia
A brightly colored bird with feathers on its head whose male has red and gold feathers
A brightly colored pheasant with golden and red feathers from forests in China
A large pheasant from Southeast Asia with showy male feathers
A large Southeast Asian bird with eye-like spots on its wings and tail
A large bird with long tail feathers that have eye-like spots
A large bird from Southeast Asia that people keep for bright feathers and beauty
A brightly coloured bird like a pheasant with fleshy face flaps and small horns in mountain forests
A large bird with bright blue feathers and a long fan tail from India and Sri Lanka
A large bird from India with long bright blue and green tail feathers
Compounds
- Indian
A large bird that lives on the ground with shiny black feathers and a long tail
- Philippine
A large Southeast Asian bird with eye-like spots on its wings and tail
A brightly colored bird with feathers on its head whose male has red and gold feathers
- Australian
A large Australian bird in the cuckoo family with a long tail like a pheasant
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pheasant comes from the name of a river, Phasis, where the bird was common in ancient times, so the name originally meant 'the bird from Phasis'. That's why a pheasant is the long-tailed wild bird people know today.