stock dove

See also: stockdove

English

A stock dove

Alternative forms

• stock-dove
• stockdove

Etymology

From stock (“tree trunk”) +‎ dove, in reference to the bird's habit of nesting in hollow trees.

Noun

stock dove (plural stock doves)

1. A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI:

     [T]he stock-dove, unalarm'd, / Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends / His long love-ditty for my near approach.

Synonyms

• stock pigeon

Translations

stock dove, Columba oenas

• Aragonese: sisella f
• Basque: txoloma
• Belarusian: клінтух m (klintux)
• Catalan: xixella f, xixell m
• Czech: holub doupňák m
• Danish: huldue (da) c
• Dutch: holenduif (nl) f
• Esperanto: trukolombo, arbokolombo
• Estonian: õõnetuvi
• Faroese: holudúgva f
• Finnish: uuttukyyhky (fi)
• French: pigeon colombin (fr) m
• Galician: pomba zura f, pombo pequeno m
• Georgian: გვიძინი (ka) (gviʒini), გულიო (ka) (gulio)
• German: Hohltaube f
• Greek: φασσοπερίστερο n (fassoperístero)
• Hungarian: kék galamb
• Icelandic: holudúfa f
• Irish: colm gorm m
• Italian: colombella f, palombella f
• Latvian: meža balodis m
• Lithuanian: uldukas (lt) m
• Macedonian: планински гулаб m (planinski gulab), гулаб дупкар m (gulab dupkar)
• Mingrelian: გუძინა (guʒina)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skogdue m or f

  Nynorsk: skogdue f

• Polish: siniak (pl) m, gołąb siniak m
• Portuguese: pombo-bravo (pt) m
• Romanian: porumbel de scorbură m
• Russian: кли́нтух (ru) m (klíntux)
• Serbo-Croatian: golub dupljaš (sh) m
• Spanish: paloma zurita f
• Swedish: skogsduva (sv) c
• Turkish: gökçe güvercin (tr)
• Ukrainian: голуб-синяк m (holub-synjak), клинтух m (klyntux)
• Welsh: colomen wyllt f