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Ringdove   Listen
noun
Ringdove  n.  (Zool.) 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ringdove" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Go ye up with Tuhfeh to the garden for the rest of the night.' So Kemeriyeh took her and carried her into the garden. Now this garden contained all manner birds, nightingale and mocking-bird and ringdove and curlew[FN204] and other than these of all the kinds, and therein were all kinds of fruits. Its channels[FN205] were of gold and silver and the water thereof, as it broke forth of its conduits, was like unto fleeing serpents' bellies, and indeed ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne



Words linked to "Ringdove" :   wood pigeon, genus Columba, cushat, turtledove, pigeon



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