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crown pigeons

crown pigeons is the plural of crown pigeon.

Meaning of crown pigeon

Noun

crown pigeon (plural crown pigeons)

  1. (obsolete) A crowned pigeon.
    • On the 17th, the steamer not having arrived, the coal-ship left, having lain here a month, according to her contract; and on the same day my hunters went out to shoot for the first time, and brought home a magnificent crown pigeon and a few common birds.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 309

Questions about crown pigeons

What is crown pigeons the plural of?
Crown pigeons is the plural of crown pigeon.

Words near crown pigeons in the dictionary

  1. crown of thorns
  2. crown over
  3. crown piece
  4. crown pieces
  5. crown pigeon
  6. crown pigeons
  7. Crown Point
  8. crown post
  9. crown prince
  10. crown princes
  11. crown princess

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