wood pigeon

English

Adult wood pigeon in Birmingham, England

wood pigeon

New Zealand Pigeon

Alternative forms

woodpigeon, wood-pigeon

Noun

wood pigeon (plural wood pigeons)

The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
A very large (up to 650 grams) species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

Synonyms

(Columba palumbus): culver, cushat, common woodpigeon, quist, zoozoo
(Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae): kereru, kererū, kūkū, kūkupa, New Zealand pigeon

Translations

Columba palumbus

Armenian: հավփալ (hy) (havpʿal)
Catalan: tudó (ca) m
Chechen: кечал-кхокха (kečal-qoqa)
Czech: holub hřivnáč m
Dutch: houtduif (nl) m or f
Finnish: sepelkyyhky (fi)
French: ramier (fr), palombe (fr)
Galician: pombo (gl) m, torcaza (gl) f
German: Ringeltaube (de), Holztaube
Greek: φάσσα f (fássa)
Hungarian: örvös galamb
Italian: colombaccio
Japanese: 森鳩 (モリバト, moribato)
Latin: palumbēs c
Low German: Holtduuv (nds) f
Norman: pigeon ramyi m, pigeon sauvage m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: ringdue (no) m or f

Nynorsk: ringdue f
Occitan: ramièr
Old English: wuduculfre f
Persian: ماسوچه‎ (mâsuče)
Portuguese: pombo torcaz m
Romanian: porumbel gulerat m
Russian: вя́хирь (ru) m (vjáxirʹ), витю́тень (ru) m (vitjútenʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: calman-coille m
Spanish: paloma torcaz (es) f, torcaz (es)
Swedish: ringduva (sv)
Tajik: фохта (foxta)
Volapük: fotapijun (vo)
Welsh: ysguthan

See also

Wood pigeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
New Zealand pigeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Columba palumbus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
wood pigeon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

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