单词 | wood pigeon |
释义 | wood pigeonn. Any of the species of pigeon that live in woods, as the stock-dove, Columba œnas, and (now esp.) the ring-dove, C. palumbus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba wood-culvera1100 wood pigeon1668 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba oenas (stock-dove) wood-culvera1100 stock-dovec1340 wood-quest1543 wood pigeon1668 stock pigeon1783 stoggie1864 sand pigeon1884 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba palumbus (wood-pigeon) cushata700 culverc825 wood-culvera1100 wood-dovec1386 queest?1440 ringed dove?1533 ring-dove1538 wood-quest1543 wood pigeon1668 ring pigeon1776 woodie1947 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 77 Columbæ Cavernalis..the Stock-dove, or Wood Pidgeon. 1743 W. Shenstone Pastoral Ballad ii. v I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. 1780 G. White Let. 30 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 110 As to the wild wood-pigeon, the oenas, or vinago, of Ray, I..see no reason for making it the origin of the common house-dove: but suppose those that have advanced that opinion may have been misled by another appellation, often given to the oenas, which is that of stock-dove. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 217 Knots or bunches..formed by means of a plexus of young shoots,..apt to be mistaken..for a wood-pigeon's nest. a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 303 The forest is not vacant... Wood-pigeons and turtle-doves abound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1668 |
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