pheasant
意味
- キジ;ヤマドリ
例文
The pheasant would not be shot but for its cries.
雉も鳴かずば打たれまい。
We shot pheasants by the hundred.
何百羽とキジを撃った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.