pheasant

Definitions


[ˈfɛznt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a large long-tailed game bird native to Asia, the male of which typically has very showy plumage


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French fesan, via Latin from Greek phasianos ‘(bird) of Phasis’, the name of a river in the Caucasus, from which the bird is said to have spread westwards




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