stockdove

See also: stock dove

English

A stockdove (Columba oenas)

Alternative forms

• stock dove
• stock-dove

Etymology

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

Noun

stockdove (plural stockdoves)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stockdove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)