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stockdove

stockdove is the alternative form of stock dove.

Meaning of stock dove

Noun

stock dove (plural stock doves)

  1. A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae.
    • [T]he stock-dove, unalarm'd, / Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends / His long love-ditty for my near approach.1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI
    Synonyms:
    stock pigeon

Forms of stockdove

pluralstockdoves

Questions about stockdove

What is stockdove the alternative form of?
Stockdove is the alternative form of stock dove.

Words near stockdove in the dictionary

  1. Stockdale
  2. Stockdales
  3. Stockdalewath
  4. stockdollager
  5. stockdollagers
  6. stockdove
  7. stockdoves
  8. stocked
  9. stocked down
  10. stocked up
  11. stocken

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