noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of several species of Asian pheasant of the genus Tragopan.
2. 2
   brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

horned pheasanthorned pheasantmagpie

Etymology

From Latin tragopān (“bird found in Ethiopia”), from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “he-goat”) + Πάν (Pán, “Pan”).

Related phrases

Blyth's tragopanCabot's tragopanTemminck's tragopansatyr tragopanwestern tragopan

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.