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passenger pigeons

passenger pigeons is the plural of passenger pigeon.

Meaning of passenger pigeon

Noun

passenger pigeon (plural passenger pigeons)

  1. A bird of the extinct species †Ectopistes migratorius, formerly endemic to North America.
    • Martha was a remnant of a species that had once dominated North America; it is estimated that there were as many as four billion – yes, billion – passenger pigeons when the Europeans arrived.2012 June 27, Helen Lewis, “Sense of an endling”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012

Questions about passenger pigeons

What is passenger pigeons the plural of?
Passenger pigeons is the plural of passenger pigeon.

Words near passenger pigeons in the dictionary

  1. passenger liner
  2. passenger liners
  3. passenger mile
  4. passenger miles
  5. passenger pigeon
  6. passenger pigeons
  7. passenger princess
  8. passenger princesses
  9. passenger seat
  10. passenger seats
  11. passenger ship

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