faisan

Definitions of faisan
  1. noun
    large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere
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    types:
    faisan doré
    brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia
    paon
    very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird
    paonne
    female peafowl
    type of:
    phasianidés
    a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae
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