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US
/ˈfɛzənt/
]
[ UK /fˈɛzənt/ ]
[ UK /fˈɛzənt/ ]
NOUN
- large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere
- flesh of a pheasant; usually braised
How To Use pheasant In A Sentence
- This chore goes fast and is followed by light pruning for the pheasantwood and rosewood plantings.
- Instead of the turkey, a boiled or roasted chicken (with the brown meat a little underdone) or a brace of stewed or roasted pheasants can be used.
- Move on to complex appetizers like pheasant ballottine, a cylinder of braised meat surrounded by a savoury sauce and tiny little apples.
- In the fields towards Heswall several pairs of brown hares lolloped and played in the long grass while pheasants strutted their stuff looking stunning in the sunlight.
- The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
- The cull of a flock of 9,000 pheasants was under way yesterday after confirmation of a highly infectious bird disease.
- The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
- Pheasant has virtually no fat so you will need to put fat bacon over its breast.
- Though the argus pheasant is not as colorful as its relatives the peacock and the palawock pheasant, it is still an interesting looking bird.
- Season with salt and pepper. Remove legs from the pheasant and remove thigh bone out to create a pocket.