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別の表記

• stock-dove
• stockdove

名詞

stock dove (複数形 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.

同意語

• stock pigeon

別の表記

• stock dove

語源

stock +‎ dove, because once believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or perhaps from its breeding in the stocks (trunks) of trees.

名詞

stockdove ‎(複数形 stockdoves)

1. A common European wild pigeon (Columba oenas).
2. Any of various related species, such as the Indian stockdove (Palumbaena eversmanni).