Meanings
adjectivephasianine (comparative more phasianine, superlative most phasianine)
comparative more phasianine · superlative most phasianine
- Of or resembling a pheasant.
The Psophia has a very phasianine expression of face, and the structure of its head answers to that look very considerably[…]
1864, The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology: Volume 14, page 387
Origin
See translingual Phasianinae.
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