stock dove
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See also: stockdove
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Noun[edit]
stock dove (plural stock doves)
- A species of pigeon (Columba oenas) in the bird family Columbidae (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.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI:
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stock dove, Columba oenas
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