Phasianid

Quick meaning: Phasianid is an adjective meaning Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.

Meaning

Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.

More Meanings

1. Specifically, belonging to the zoologic family Phasianidae, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
2. Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• phasianids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pavonine, gallinaceous, pinfeathered, passerine, impennate, passeridan.

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