Definitions for crow-pheasant

crow-pheasant crow-pheas·ant

Spelling: [kroh-fez-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈkroʊˌfɛz ənt/

Crow-Pheasant is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 2203 anagrams from letters in crow-pheasant (-aacehnoprstw).

Definitions for crow-pheasant

noun

  1. a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.

Examples for crow-pheasant

The common coucal or crow-pheasant (Centropus sinensis) is a cuckoo that builds a nest and incubates its eggs.

It hops about in thick bushes with considerable address, much as a crow-pheasant does.

The coucal or crow-pheasant, for example, is divided up into three local races.

On looking up, I saw a crow-pheasant (Centropus rufipennis) running up a branch in the inimitable manner of his kind.

The whoot, whoot, whoot of the crow-pheasant booms from almost every thicket.

Other birds that lift up their voices at early dawn are the crow-pheasant, the black partridge and the peacock.

The crow-pheasant is one of the most familiar of Indian birds.

The nest of the crow-pheasant or coucal is a massive structure, globular in shape, with the entrance at one side.

There is something very pompous about the strut of the crow-pheasant.

The crow-pheasant is widely distributed in India, being found in gardens, in cultivated fields, and in the jungle.

Word Value for crow-pheasant
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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