单词 | pigeon |
释义 | pigeon (once / 558 pages) n WORD FAMILY pigeon: pigeons USAGE EXAMPLESThe 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 Hypo|Hyper pouter, pouter pigeon one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out doveany of numerous small pigeons Columba livia, rock dove, rock pigeonpale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended Columba fasciata, band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, bandtailwild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon Columba palumbus, cushat, ringdove, wood pigeonEurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck domestic pigeondomesticated pigeon raised for sport or food squaban unfledged pigeon Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeongregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct turtledoveany of several Old World wild doves Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata, turtledovesmall Australian dove Zenaidura macroura, mourning dovewild dove of the United States having a mournful call fairy swallowfancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeonpigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground homer, homing pigeonpigeon 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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