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Definition of Ringdove
1. Noun. Greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged.
2. Noun. Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck.
Generic synonyms: Pigeon
Group relationships: Columba, Genus Columba
Definition of Ringdove
1. n. A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
Definition of Ringdove
1. Noun. the wood pigeon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ringdove
1. a European pigeon [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ringdove
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringdove
Literary usage of Ringdove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1872)
"The nest of the ringdove is of so simple a character as scarcely to deserve the
name. ... So slight is the texture ringdove AND NEST. of the platform, ..."
2. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"In a spruce fir-tree there was the nest of a ringdove AND NEST. magpie, containing
seven eggs, which were removed and those of the jackdaw substituted. ..."
3. The Fables of Æsop: With a Life of the Author; Illustrated with One Hundred by Aesop (1865)
"THE FOWLER AND THE ringdove. A FOWLER took his gun, and went into the woody a
... He spied a ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1834)
"A Description of the Habits of the ringdove* By CHARLES WATERTON, fisq. THE supposed
purity of the dove is a common topic with many writers; ..."
5. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1844)
"A DESCRIPTION OF THE HABITS OF THE ringdove. THE supposed purity of the dove is
a common topic with many writers ; and their readers are apt to imagine that ..."
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