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wood-pigeon

wood-pigeon is the alternative form of wood pigeon.

Meaning of wood pigeon

Noun

wood pigeon (plural wood pigeons)

  1. The common wood pigeon, Columba palumbus, an Old World species of pigeon.
    • Idiot-eyed wood pigeons lumbered across the lawn, belly-deep in clover.2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 14
  2. A species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.
    Synonyms:
    kererū, kūkū, kūkupa, New Zealand pigeon

Forms of wood-pigeon

pluralwood-pigeons

Questions about wood-pigeon

What is wood-pigeon the alternative form of?
Wood-pigeon is the alternative form of wood pigeon.

Words near wood-pigeon in the dictionary

  1. wood-locked
  2. wood-nymph
  3. wood-nymphs
  4. wood-oil
  5. wood-oils
  6. wood-pigeon
  7. wood-pigeons
  8. wood-pulp
  9. Wood-Ridge
  10. wood-rot
  11. wood-rots

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