Columba
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From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”).
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Columba
- (taxonomy) A taxonomic genus within the family Columbidae — doves and pigeons.
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- 2006, Gill, F. and Wright, M., Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276:
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”)
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Columba
- St. Columba of Iona (Old Irish Columb Cille, meaning "Dove of the church"); one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
- Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.
- (astronomy) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove. It was introduced by Augustin Royer in 1679, as a split from the constellation Canis Major.
