Definition of Monal

1. Noun. Brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia.

Exact synonyms: Monaul
Generic synonyms: Pheasant
Group relationships: Genus Lophophorus, Lophophorus

Definition of Monal

1. n. Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.

Definition of Monal

1. Noun. Any of three species of pheasant in the genus ''Lophophorus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monal

1. a Himalayan pheasant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Monal

1. Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monal

monadelphy
monades
monadic
monadic operation
monadic predicate logic
monadical
monadically
monadiform
monadism
monadisms
monadnock
monadnocks
monadologies
monadology
monads
monal (current term)
monals
monamide
monamides
monamine
monamines
monaminuria
monander
monandria
monandrian
monandric
monandries
monandry
monangle

Literary usage of Monal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1858)
"The monal frequents the high regions of the Western Ranges, and lives among the ... monal-shoot- ing far eclipses anything of the sort, British or European ..."

2. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1886)
"Not many years ago the monal was common in the forests of the Himalaya, ... Some sportsman probably, having penetrated the Himalaya and shot a monal, ..."

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