different between pheasant vs phasianid

English

Etymology

From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin ph?si?nus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ph?sianós), meaning “[bird] of the river ????? (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English w?rhana, a variant of m?rhana. More at moorhen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?z?nt/
• Rhymes: -?z?nt

Noun

pheasant (plural pheasants)

1. A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

Translations

Anagrams

• ant-heaps, antheaps, thapsane

English

Etymology

New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fe???n?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fe???n?d/

Adjective

phasianid (comparative more phasianid, superlative most phasianid)

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.

Synonyms

• (belonging to the Phasianidae): phasianous

Noun

phasianid (plural phasianids)

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.

   Typical of many phasianid birds, guinea fowl are capable runners that have strong burst-flight capacities but little endurance in flight.

Translations

Anagrams

• aphaniids, aphidians