rock pigeon

English

Alternative forms

• Often used in the capitalized form: Rock Pigeon

Pronunciation

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Noun

rock pigeon (plural rock pigeons)

1. A species of pigeon, Columba livia. Over the years both the terms "rock dove" and "rock pigeon" have been used interchangeably for this species. (See the note on the nomenclature of this species: [1])
2. (Australia) The bronzewing pigeons, or bronzewings of Australia.

Synonyms

• rock dove, Columba livia

Translations

Columba livia

• Catalan: colom roquer m
• Chechen: кхокха (qoqa)
• Dutch: postduif (nl)
• Esperanto: rokkolombo
• Finnish: kalliokyyhky (fi)
• French: pigeon biset (fr) m, biset (fr) m
• Georgian: გარეული მტრედი (gareuli mṭredi)
• German: Felsentaube f
• Greek: αρκοπέζουνο n (arkopézouno)
• Japanese: カワラバト (kawarabato)
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• Korean: 집비둘기 (jipbidulgi)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: മാടപ്പ്രാവ് (māṭapprāvŭ)
• Mongolian: ᠠᠩᠬᠠᠨ ᠦ
  ᠲᠠᠭᠲᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (angqan-ü taɣtag-a)
• Navajo: hasbídí
• Portuguese: pombo-domestico m
• Russian: си́зый го́лубь m (sízyj gólubʹ)
• Spanish: paloma bravia f
• Swedish: klippduva c

bronzewing

• Finnish: pronssikyyhky (genus Henicophaps), pensaskyyhky (genus Phaps)
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Anagrams

• precooking