pheasant-tailed
adjective
1 Australian designating a long-tailed cuckoo-dove of the east coast of Australia, Macropygia amboinensis, which is brown with paler underparts.
2Designating a long-tailed jacana of South-East Asia, Hydrophasianus chirurgus.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John Gould (1804–1881), ornithologist and publisher.
- highly trained
- high-maintenance
- High Mall
- high mallow
- high man
- High Mass
- high-mettled
- High Mightiness
- high milling
- high-minded
- high-mindedly
- high-mindedness
- highmost
- high muck-a-muck
- high muckety-muck
- high-necked
- highness
- highnesshood
- Highness-ship
- high noon
- high-nosed
- high note
- high-occupancy vehicle
- high-octane
- highpad