plural pheasant or pheasants
1
: any of numerous large often long-tailed and brightly colored Old World gallinaceous birds (Phasianus and related genera of the family Phasianidae) including many raised as ornamental or game birds compare ring-necked pheasant
2
: any of various birds resembling a pheasant
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Then, over Labor Day weekend, one of the zoo’s cormorants died, as did a pheasant, a bald eagle, and three flamingos.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
The big picture: Lewis was a Black woman born in the American South in 1916 who worked as a laundress, pheasant farmer and a seamstress — copying Dior-style dresses and even creating one for Marilyn Monroe.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 19 July 2024
This recipe adapts the hops-roasting technique with something a little wilder—a ringneck pheasant.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
The series has killed off characters via boiling alive, beheading, earthquake, bandit attack, cannon fire, and bloody accident, for losing a battle, disrespecting the Council of Regents, or breaking a facetiously uttered rule against touching a rotting pheasant.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2024
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
The big picture: Lewis was a Black woman born in the American South in 1916 who worked as a laundress, pheasant farmer and a seamstress — copying Dior-style dresses and even creating one for Marilyn Monroe.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 19 July 2024
This recipe adapts the hops-roasting technique with something a little wilder—a ringneck pheasant.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
The series has killed off characters via boiling alive, beheading, earthquake, bandit attack, cannon fire, and bloody accident, for losing a battle, disrespecting the Council of Regents, or breaking a facetiously uttered rule against touching a rotting pheasant.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2024
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pheasant
noun
pheas·ant
ˈfez-ᵊnt 
plural pheasant or pheasants
: any of numerous large long-tailed brightly colored birds that are related to the domestic chicken and many of which are raised as ornamental or game birds
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