单词 | ring pheasant |
释义 | > as lemmasring pheasant ring pheasant n. now historical and rare = ring-necked pheasant n. at ring-necked adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ 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 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 567 We likewise saw several beautiful ring-pheasants. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 424 Temminck says the one found in European preserves is a hybrid, between the common pheasant and the genuine Ring Pheasant..of China. 1909 Auk 26 112 In the introduced Ring Pheasant, I once watched a flock of young birds in flight whose only partly grown tails did not conceal the long legs..that extended backwards. 2016 M. Forsyth Christmas Cornucopia iv. 110 But what about the five gold rings? Well, the ‘gold rings’ are almost certainly ring-necked pheasants, or ring pheasants, as they used to be called. < as lemmas |
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