pheasant - large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewherephasianid - a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae monal, monaul - brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia bird of Juno, peafowl - very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird tragopan - brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head |