Definition of pheasant

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Pheasant (n.) The ruffed grouse.

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Pheasantry :: Pheasantry (n.) A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
Monal :: Monal (n.) Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant..
Sea Pheasant :: Sea pheasant () The pintail duck.
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant..
Alectorides :: Alectorides (n. pl.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren..
Gallinaceous :: Gallinaceous (a.) Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.
Adonis :: Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower..
Gallinae :: Gallinae (n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores..
Hocco :: Hocco (n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.
Tragopan :: Tragopan (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Agami :: Agami (n.) A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Pheasant :: Pheasant (n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia..
Leipoa :: Leipoa (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant..
Rocketer :: Rocketer (n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket..
Koklass :: Koklass (n.) Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras..
Water Pheasant :: Water pheasant (n.) The hooded merganser.
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