phasianine
English
editEtymology
editSee translingual Phasianinae.
Adjective
editphasianine (comparative more phasianine, superlative most phasianine)
- 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 […]