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carrier pigeons

carrier pigeons is the plural of carrier pigeon.

Meaning of carrier pigeon

Noun

carrier pigeon (plural carrier pigeons)

  1. A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.
    • At length, after wheeling his toothpick slowly round and round in the air, as if it were a carrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the drawing,1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in Martin Chuzzlewit
    Synonyms:
    homer, homing pigeon

Noun capitalized: Carrier Pigeons

Carrier Pigeons

  1. (plural) plural of Carrier Pigeon

Questions about carrier pigeons

What is carrier pigeons the plural of?
Carrier pigeons is the plural of carrier pigeon.
What part of speech is carrier pigeons?
Carrier pigeons is a noun.

Words near carrier pigeons in the dictionary

  1. carrier hotel
  2. carrier hotels
  3. carrier oil
  4. carrier oils
  5. carrier pigeon
  6. carrier pigeons
  7. carrier protein
  8. carrier proteins
  9. carrier screening
  10. carrier set
  11. carrier sets

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