phasianid means of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
phasianid is pronounced /ˈfeɪʃənɪd/.
Etymology
New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).
adj
- Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.“The chukar, a bird of the phasianid family, is distributed in Israel across a sharp climatic cline from Mediterranean regions in the north to extremely arid areas only ~200 km away in the Negev Desert.”
- Specifically, belonging to the zoologic family Phasianidae, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.“The megapode is viewed as a ‘specialised’ galliform, having extended the phasianid incubation period and producing superprecocial hatchlings that have developed in the egg for a further four weeks.”
noun
- Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird.“It is a medium-sized phasianid: males can weight even 600 grams and are bigger than the females. Moreover, unlike the females, they have ergots on the claws.”