phasianid

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfeɪʃənɪd/    美 /ˈfeɪʃənəd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more phasianid comparative most phasianid superlative phasianids plural

词源

词源 1
New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).
词源 2
New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).
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