stock dove
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See also: stockdove
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Columba_oenas1.jpg/220px-Columba_oenas1.jpg)
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[edit]Noun
[edit]stock dove (plural stock doves)
- A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae of pigeons and doves).
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI:
- [T]he stock-dove, unalarm'd, / Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends / His long love-ditty for my near approach.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]stock dove, Columba oenas
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