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stock dove

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A stock dove

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stock dove (plural stock doves)

  1. A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae of pigeons and doves).
    • 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.

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