wood pigeon

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wood pigeon (plural wood pigeons)

  1. The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
    • 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 14:
      Idiot-eyed wood pigeons lumbered across the lawn, belly-deep in clover.
  2. Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
  3. A very large (up to 650 grams) species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

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