tragopan

1. 1.

   brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head

   Broaderpheasant

   Part ofgenus Tragopan

Other forms of tragopan

plural

tragopans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tragopan

What does tragopan mean?

tragopan means "brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head".

How many syllables are in tragopan?

tragopan has 3 syllables: tra-go-pan. The stress falls on "tra".

Is tragopan a common word?

tragopan 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.