Pheasant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfɛzənt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pheasant is a noun meaning (countable) A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
Meaning
(countable) A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
Example Sentences
Bring a dish of berries with cream to me there. Bread, too. And a slice of pheasant.
Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.
Word Forms
- pheasants
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monal, argus, feather, partridge, gallopheasant, peafowl.
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