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stock dove
[ duhv ]
noun
- a cosmopolitan wild pigeon, Columba oenas, of Europe.
stock dove
noun
- a European dove, Columba oenas, smaller than the wood pigeon and having a uniformly grey plumage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stock dove1
1300–50; Middle English stokdove; compare German Stocktaube; so called because it nests in hollow tree trunks
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stock dove1
C14: so called because it lives in tree trunks. See stock
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Example Sentences
The stock-dove, one of our pretty wild pigeons, nests in colonies in rabbit-burrows, as does the brown owl.
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Mrs. Wordsworth, in all her enthusiasm for Wordsworth's beautiful address to the stock-dove, took the old woman to her heart.
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Inside the sticks were the feathers and part of the skeleton of a stock-dove.
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Among the feathered tribes they mention the “thrush and stock-dove.”
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Among the feathered tribes they mention the "thrush and stock-dove."
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