Definitions for wood-pigeon

wood-pigeon wood pigeon

Wood-Pigeon is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in wood-pigeon (-deginooopw).

Definitions for wood-pigeon

noun

  1. Also called ringdove. a European pigeon, Columba palumbus, having a whitish patch on each side of the neck.
  2. band-tailed pigeon.

Origin of wood-pigeon

First recorded in 1660-70

Examples for wood-pigeon

The wood pigeon makes an untidy nest, consisting of a few bits of twigs placed one on the other without much care.

A wood pigeon alighted on a branch close by, and sat preening her radiant plumage in a bath of golden sunlight.

A man was feeding with breadcrumbs a wood pigeon at his feet.

Alice laughed, a clear laugh that mingled musically with the call of a wood pigeon in the green dimness above.

wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples.

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

A wood pigeon cooed tranquilly in the cedar, and Lady Louisa groaned.

The tropical bird and the wood pigeon had as much likeness in every thing else.

In some places he is called the rain crow, and in other places the wood pigeon; but of course he is neither a crow nor a pigeon.

And there followed a long silence, unbroken save for the soft cooing of a wood pigeon in the trees overhead.

Word Value for wood-pigeon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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