phasianine

English

Etymology

See translingual Phasianinae.

Adjective

phasianine (comparative more phasianine, superlative most phasianine)

1. Of or resembling a pheasant.
   • 1864, The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology: Volume 14, page 387:

     The Psophia has a very phasianine expression of face, and the structure of its head answers to that look very considerably […]