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sucking-doves

sucking-doves is the plural of sucking-dove.

Meaning of sucking-dove

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

Questions about sucking-doves

What is sucking-doves the plural of?
Sucking-doves is the plural of sucking-dove.

Words near sucking-doves in the dictionary

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

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