phasianus colchicus

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   common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring

   Synonymsring-necked pheasant

   Broaderpheasant

   Part ofPhasianus

   Partspheasant

Questions about phasianus colchicus

What does phasianus colchicus mean?

phasianus colchicus means "common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring".

What is another word for phasianus colchicus?

Close synonyms include ring-necked pheasant. 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 phasianus colchicus a common word?

phasianus colchicus 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.