Phasianid
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird.
"It is a medium-sized phasianid: males can weight even 600 grams and are bigger than the females. Moreover, unlike the females, they have ergots on the claws."
- 2 a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae wordnet
- 1 Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.
"The chukar, a bird of the phasianid family, is distributed in Israel across a sharp climatic cline from Mediterranean regions in the north to extremely arid areas only ~200 km away in the Negev Desert."
- 2 Specifically, belonging to the zoologic family Phasianidae, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
"The megapode is viewed as a ‘specialised’ galliform, having extended the phasianid incubation period and producing superprecocial hatchlings that have developed in the egg for a further four weeks."
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More examples"The chukar, a bird of the phasianid family, is distributed in Israel across a sharp climatic cline from Mediterranean regions in the north to extremely arid areas only ~200 km away in the Negev Desert."
Etymology
New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).
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