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Lady Amherst

Lady Amherst is the ellipsis of Lady Amherst's pheasant.

Meaning of Lady Amherst's pheasant

Noun

Lady Amherst's pheasant (plural Lady Amherst's pheasants)

  1. (UK) A colourful pheasant, of species Chrysolophus amherstiae, indigenous to China but also found in Bedfordshire.

Forms of Lady Amherst

pluralLady Amhersts

Questions about Lady Amherst

What is Lady Amherst the ellipsis of?
Lady Amherst is the ellipsis of Lady Amherst's pheasant.

Words near Lady Amherst in the dictionary

  1. Ladwigs
  2. lady
  3. lady abbess
  4. lady abbesses
  5. Lady altar
  6. Lady Amherst
  7. Lady Amherst's pheasant
  8. Lady Amherst's pheasants
  9. Lady Amhersts
  10. Lady Baltimore cake
  11. Lady Baltimore cakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lady Amherst (page history and authors); Lady Amherst's pheasant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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