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sucking-dove

sucking-dove noun: a young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.

Noun

sucking-dove (plural sucking-doves)

  1. A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.
    • "He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of sucking-dove

pluralsucking-doves

Questions about sucking-dove

What does sucking-dove mean?
Sucking-dove means a young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.
What part of speech is sucking-dove?
Sucking-dove is a noun.
What is the plural of sucking-dove?
The plural of sucking-dove is sucking-doves.

Words near sucking-dove in the dictionary

  1. sucking tits
  2. sucking under
  3. sucking up
  4. sucking urge
  5. sucking urges
  6. sucking-dove
  7. sucking-doves
  8. sucking-fish
  9. sucking-fishes
  10. sucking-pig
  11. sucking-pigs

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