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单词 pigeon
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pigeon
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pigeon: pigeons
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The artist Duke Riley sets two thousand homing pigeons, outfitted with L.E.D. lights, into motion.
The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016)
The pigeon thinks: “I almost won the big one. Better keep dropping money in this machine.”
Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016)
Some of these are imported, like wild wood pigeon from Scotland.
New York Times(Dec 13, 2016)
n wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
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pouter, pouter pigeon
one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out
dove
any of numerous small pigeons
Columba livia, rock dove, rock pigeon
pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
Columba fasciata, band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, bandtail
wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
Columba palumbus, cushat, ringdove, wood pigeon
Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
domestic pigeon
domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food
squab
an unfledged pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeon
gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct
turtledove
any of several Old World wild doves
Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata, turtledove
small Australian dove
Zenaidura macroura, mourning dove
wild dove of the United States having a mournful call
fairy swallow
fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon
pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
homer, homing pigeon
pigeon trained to return home
columbiform bird
a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
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