What's the difference between pheasant and pheasantry?

Pheasant


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
  • (n.) The ruffed grouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
  • (2) In several groups of galliform birds (chicken, turkey, pheasant and guinea fowl) the presence and function of plasma haptoglobin (Hp) have been studied.
  • (3) In ring-necked pheasants, maximum body weights were attained at 26 and 20 weeks of age for males and females, respectively.
  • (4) Sera from the intergeneric hybrids of chicken X turkey, chicken X pheasant, and chicken X quail had two antigenetically distinguishable peaks in the albumin area.
  • (5) Avian leukosis viruses of subgroups A and F (RAV-A and RAV-F) arose at a low rate after passage of Rous sarcoma virus-Rous-associated virus-0, which is subgroup E, in cells from ring-necked pheasant embryos.
  • (6) It suggests a trend for pheasants exposed to ahemeral L:D cycles to improve egg production.
  • (7) The pheasant viruses (PV) were similar to avian leukosis-sarcoma viruses (ALSV) in their gross morphology, in the size of their RNA, in the presence of a virion-associated RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (DNA nucleotidyltransferase; deoxynucleoside triphosphate: DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase; EC 2.7.7.7), and in their growth characteristics.
  • (8) The immunohistochemical staining technique was used on tissues from pheasants with experimental MSD, on tissues from a pheasant with natural MSD, and on tissues from turkeys with natural HE.
  • (9) Severe toxin-induced mortality was seen during the first to third weeks with 2.50 and 5.00 ppm aflatoxin (92.5% and 97.5%, respectively), compared with the mortality in control pheasants fed no toxin (0%).
  • (10) The RIA will measure PRL in several avian species including the chicken, duck, goose, pheasant, pheasant X chicken F1 hybrid, pigeon, quail and rock.
  • (11) Ethyl mercury p-toluene sulfonanilide (active ingredient of Ceresan M) at a dietary concentration of 30 parts per million (12.5 parts of mercury per million) was lethal to adult ring-necked pheasants.
  • (12) The genome of ring-necked pheasant virus, an avian oncovirus, is largely homologous to the genomes of chicken oncoviruses except for a specific nonhomology in env, the gene coding for the surface glycoprotein of the virion (J. Tal, D. J. Fujita, S. Kawai, H. E. Varmus, and J. M. Bishop, J. Virol.
  • (13) In addition splenic material was injected into adult pheasants.
  • (14) He said: "Unlike the Tories we will have a grouse shoot against racism" in reference to the Tories having auctioned a "fantastic eight-gun pheasant shoot" in Oxfordshire at their summer ball.
  • (15) We have examined the presence and distribution of RAV-O-related sequences in the DNA of Red Junglefowl and other closely related species of Junglefowl, as well as more distantly related Pheasants and Quail.
  • (16) Stable traps, each baited with a jackrabbit and either a chicken or a pheasant, collected more than 21,000 mosquitoes in the Sacramento Valley, California, in 1972 and 1973.
  • (17) Testes weights were recorded for 8 to 34-week-old pheasants and 12 to 30-week-old chukars.
  • (18) The response of ring-necked pheasants to inoculation with three strains of cell-culture-propagated type II avian adenovirus was examined.
  • (19) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
  • (20) Salinomycin at 60 ppm in the feed was highly efficacious and coccidiocidal against all four species, but the salinomycin-medicated pheasants gained the least of all medicated birds.

Pheasantry


Definition:

  • (n.) A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another observation was made on a chicken stock reared inside a pheasantry.
  • (2) Free-living pheasants in a moist forest surrounded by fields with intensive large-scale cultivation showed a higher incidence of infection with syngamosis than pheasants from a forest pheasantry, in which rearing had to be discontinued for reasons of the death of chicks due to syngamosis.

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