golden pheasant

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   brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia

   SynonymsChrysolophus pictus

   Broaderpheasant

   Part ofChrysolophus

Questions about golden pheasant

What does golden pheasant mean?

golden pheasant means "brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia".

What is another word for golden pheasant?

Close synonyms include Chrysolophus pictus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is golden pheasant a common word?

golden pheasant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.