Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several kinds of ring-plovers.
- noun The ring-necked duck or bastard broadbill, Fuligula rufitorques, having a reddish ring around the black neck in the male.
- noun In Australia, a jackaroo. The name is given in allusion to the white collar which the new arrival is apt to wear, until home training has been supplanted by bush customs. E. E. Morris, Austral English.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Ægialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (
Ægialitis semipalmata ) and the piping plover (Ægialitis meloda ) are common North American species. Called alsoring plover , andring-necked plover . - noun (Zoöl.) The ring-necked duck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
birds that have a ringed-neck
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Examples
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You talk about invasive species, you mean like brown trout, honey bees, night crawlers, ringneck pheasants, or Hungarian partridge?
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You talk about invasive species, you mean like brown trout, honey bees, night crawlers, ringneck pheasants, or Hungarian partridge?
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Was surprise to catch 17 yellow pearch or ringneck perch from shore using minnows.
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I do not want to erase the coyote population (I know that is impossible), but I would like to have the rabbits, as well as quail and ringneck pheasant that used to call this area home, start to return.
The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question. 2009
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In the never-ending debate over the impact of non-native species, there are invaders many of us have come to accept and even revere (the ringneck pheasant, Huns, chukars) and there are invaders that are almost universally reviled (the snakehead, kudzu, zebra mussels, Texas Longhorn fans).
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Was surprise to catch 17 yellow pearch or ringneck perch from shore using minnows.
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Let's not forget the ringneck phesant is an invasive species ...
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When hunting with him, it wasn't unusual to end the day with a bag of half a ringneck and 1 and a half rabbits.
"Claimers" 2009
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Let's not forget the ringneck phesant is an invasive species ...
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular gamebird than the ringneck pheasant.
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