PHEASANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pheasant mean? 

• PHEASANT (noun)
  The noun PHEASANT has 2 senses:

1. large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere

2. flesh of a pheasant; usually braised

  Familiarity information: PHEASANT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHEASANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pheasant" is a kind of...):

phasianid (a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pheasant"):

Phasianus colchicus; ring-necked pheasant (common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring)

afropavo; Afropavo congensis; Congo peafowl (both sexes are brightly colored)

argus; argus pheasant (large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant)

Chrysolophus pictus; golden pheasant (brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia)

monal; monaul (brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia)

bird of Juno; peafowl (very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird)

tragopan (brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head)

Holonyms ("pheasant" is a member of...):

genus Phasianus; Phasianus (type genus of the Phasianidae: the typical pheasants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flesh of a pheasant; usually braised

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pheasant" is a kind of...):

wildfowl (flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food)

Domain category:

game bird (any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport)

Holonyms ("pheasant" is a part of...):

Phasianus colchicus; ring-necked pheasant (common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring)

 Context examples 

“Here are the greatest number of our plants, and here are the curious pheasants.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never saw Mansfield Wood so full of pheasants in my life as this year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant’s life.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He has been ill ever since he did not eat any of the pheasant today. He fancied it tough, sent away his plate, and has been suffering ever since”.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as ‘fly paper’ and ‘hen pheasant’?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is nothing but four of those beautiful pheasants' eggs, which Mrs. Whitaker would quite force upon me: she would not take a denial.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But what is the meaning of these “head-keepers” and “hen pheasants”?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)