英语词汇“pheasantries”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

pheasantries

释义

pheasant /fezˈnt/

noun (pl pheasant or pheasants)

A richly-coloured, long-tailed (in the male form), gallinaceous bird (Phasianus colchicus), a half-wild game bird in Britain
Extended to others of the same or related genus (such as golden, silver, Argus, or Amherst's pheasant) and to other birds
The tufted grouse (US)
A francolin (S Afr)
The lyrebird (Aust)
Also the coucal (swamp pheasant)
The flesh of any of these birds as food

ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr fesant, from L phāsiānus, from Gr phāsiānos (ornis) (bird) from the river Phasis, in Colchis (ancient Asia)

pheasˈantry noun

An enclosure for rearing pheasants

pheasˈant's-eye noun

A ranunculaceous plant (genus Adonis) with deep-red dark-centred flowers

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