PHASIANIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phasianidae mean? 

• PHASIANIDAE (noun)
  The noun PHASIANIDAE has 1 sense:

1. pheasants; quails; partridges

  Familiarity information: PHASIANIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHASIANIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pheasants; quails; partridges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phasianidae; Phasianidae

Hypernyms ("Phasianidae" is a kind of...):

bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (members of "Phasianidae"):

Colinus; genus Colinus (New World quail: the bobwhites)

Numididae; Numidinae; subfamily Numididae; subfamily Numidinae (guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar)

Perdicidae; Perdicinae; subfamily Perdicidae; subfamily Perdicinae (Old World partridges)

genus Tragopan (a genus of Phasianidae)

genus Lofortyx; Lofortyx (California quail)

genus Pavo; Pavo (peafowl)

genus Odontophorus; Odontophorus (genus of Central and South American crested partridges resembling quails; sometimes placed in a distinct subfamily or isolated in a distinct family)

genus Lophophorus; Lophophorus (monals)

Coturnix; genus Coturnix (Old World quail)

Chrysolophus; genus Chrysolophus (golden pheasants)

Argusianus; genus Argusianus (argus pheasants)

genus Afropavo (Congo peafowl)

genus Phasianus; Phasianus (type genus of the Phasianidae: the typical pheasants)

phasianid (a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae)

Gallus; genus Gallus (common domestic birds and related forms)

Holonyms ("Phasianidae" is a member of...):

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)