Definition of Family Phasianidae

1. Noun. Pheasants; quails; partridges.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Phasianidae

family Percidae
family Percophidae
family Peridiniidae
family Peripatidae
family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae
family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae
family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae (current term)
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae
family Phyllostomidae

Literary usage of Family Phasianidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zoology: A Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts by William Benjamin Carpenter (1848)
"These Birds, therefore, may be regarded as representing in Australia the different sections of the family Phasianidae, which are wanting in that division of ..."

2. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter (1857)
"These Birds, therefore, may be regarded as representing in Australia the different sections of the family Phasianidae, which are wanting in that division of ..."

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