| 单词 | common pheasant |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon pheasant a. Any of numerous large, long-tailed game birds of the subfamily Phasianinae (family Phasianidae), native to Asia, the males of which typically have showy plumage while the females are plainer and often brown; spec. (also common pheasant; see also ring-necked pheasant n. at ring-necked adj. Compounds) Phasianus colchicus, extensively introduced in western Europe, North America, and elsewhere for hunting, the male of which typically has a dark green head with scarlet wattles and (in some populations) a white collar.Argus, blood, peacock, silver pheasant, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > general or unspecified member pheasantc1299 partridgec1300 quail1625 Lady Amherst's pheasant1844 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus colchicus (pheasant) pheasantc1299 ring pheasant1777 swish-tail1796 ring-neck1825 Colchian pheasant1862 Mongolian pheasant1903 Mongolian1909 Kyrgyz pheasant1922 α. β. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 2223 (MED) A Phesant cam before here yhe.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Phesaunt a byrde, faisant.1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 268 The Phesant and Partridg.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 744 I haue no Pheazant Cock, nor Hen. View more context for this quotation1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. Comm. 41 Figured like a Wood-hen or shee-pheasant.a1653 G. Daniel Landskip in Idyllia 5 Fame, a peircht Phaisant and the Quest of Kings, Keepes her at Bay.a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 37 Fair as the Phasiant.1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. 69 I have three Sorts of Chinese Cock Pheasants, and the Hens of two of them.1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 17 A wicked imp..Bewitch'd the children of the peasants,..And suck'd the eggs, and kill'd the pheasants.1806 P. Hawker Diary I. 4 4 brace of pheasants.1873 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Wooin' o't xxvii She enjoyed occasionally startling a pheasant as it rose with a sudden whirr.1911 J. London Burning Daylight 171 It was more like slaughtering fat, hand-reared pheasants on the English preserves.1994 Outdoor Canada Mar. 36/3 Biologists also listen for..the crowing of cock pheasants and the whistle of the male bobwhite quail.2002 Outdoor Life Feb. 68/2 In Pennsylvania the quarry is pheasants, in Michigan more ruffs and woodcock.c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 498 (MED) Uno fesaund empt. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 183 Wiþ fesauns & feldfares and oþer foules grete. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 357 The fesaunt, skornere of the cok by nyghte. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 124 Dyverse pertryches and feysauntes. a1500 Sir Orfeo (Harl.) (1966) 296 Of game they fonde grete haunt, Fesaunt, heron, and cormerant. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij v The crane, the fesant, the pecocke & curlewe. 1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 370 It is a more goodly beinge..of a goodly Fesaund. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 75/1 Of chyckens, of hennes, of capons, of faysannes. 1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 5 For the desire of Feisants or Partrich. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 39 Sumthing les than the fasiane. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 321 Patridges and Feasants are common. 1697 View Penal Laws 122 None shall take Fesants or Partridges with Engins. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fezzan, a pheasant. < as lemmas |
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