Definitions for passenger-pigeon

passenger-pigeon passenger pigeon

Passenger-Pigeon is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1708 anagrams from letters in passenger-pigeon (-aeeegginnopprss).

Definitions for passenger-pigeon

noun

  1. an extinct pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, once found in great numbers in North America, noted for its sustained migratory flights.

Origin of passenger-pigeon

An Americanism dating back to 1795-1805

Examples for passenger-pigeon

The American passenger pigeon compasses the whole Atlantic ocean.

The passenger pigeon is a wood pigeon, nesting and roosting in trees.

Remember the fate of the passenger pigeon and the American bison.

The vast oak forest of Kentucky was what attracted the passenger pigeon.

Of all the pigeon tribe, this of our country—the passenger pigeon—is the swiftest and most beautiful.

He turned aside once to visit a roosting place of the passenger pigeon.

Of all the wild pigeons in the world the passenger pigeon is my favorite.

We observed the passenger pigeon, and one or two species of the falco family.

The American passenger pigeon, once very abundant in the Middle West, is now extinct.

It is often mistaken for the Wild or passenger pigeon, now extinct.

Word Value for passenger-pigeon
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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