wood pigeon in English

noun
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a large Eurasian and African pigeon with mainly gray plumage, using wing claps in display flight.
Until recently, winter nesting in British birds has been very rare beyond a handful of species that include the wood pigeon , feral pigeon, and collared dove.
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1. Palumbus torquatus. Wood-Pigeon, or Cushat.

2. 3 synonyms for Cushat: Columba palumbus, wood pigeon, ringdove

3. 3 synonyms for Cushat: Columba palumbus, wood pigeon, ringdove

4. Definitions for the word, Cushat (n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon

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

6. Cushat definition: a wood pigeon ( Columba palumbus ) Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

7. Cushat (plural Cushats) (Tyneside or informal) A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.

8. Its call is a characteristic six-note cooing, weaker and lower-pitched than that of the wood pigeon.

9. For the most part it was a silent forest, lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon Cooed or snow- white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.

10. Cushat - Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck Columba palumbus, wood pigeon, ringdove pigeon - wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs genus Columba, Columba - type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons

11. Cushat - Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck Columba palumbus, wood pigeon, ringdove pigeon - wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs genus Columba, Columba - type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons