| 词汇 | pheasant |
| 词源 | pheasant. The bird’s name came into English from the Old French, faisant, but it goes back to the Greek phasianos ornis, “the Phasian bird,” because the Greeks first found the bird in the region of the Phasis river where it flows into the Black Sea. |
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