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Definition of Domestic pigeon

1. Noun. Domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food.

Definition of Domestic pigeon

1. Noun. An alternative term for feral pigeon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Domestic Pigeon

Literary usage of Domestic pigeon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1889)
"VARIATION OF THE SPINAL NERVES IN THE CAUDAL REGION OF THE domestic pigeon. JAMES I. PECK, AB ONE of the most conspicuous of the variations in the internal ..."

2. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"CHAPTER THE domestic pigeon A handred wings are dropi as soli as one. ... The domestic pigeon is known under many varieties, all of which, ..."

3. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"As a contribution to this interesting field the present paper reports an investigation of certain emotional and associative processes of the domestic pigeon ..."

4. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"The platform mode of building affords very strong evidence that the ring-dove is not the original species of the numerous varieties of the domestic pigeon, ..."

5. Variation in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1903)
"It therefore follows that the hereditary characters of the ancestral rock pigeon are almost as strongly represented in the germ-plasm of a domestic pigeon ..."

6. A Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection by Henry Newell Martin, William A. Moale (1883)
"THE ANATOMY OF THE domestic pigeon (Columba livia, var. domestica), 1. General External Appearance.* a. Note the general spindle form of the head and trunk ..."

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