| 释义 |
rock-dove
[rock n.1]
= rock-pigeon 1.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 96 Rock-doves breed upon Rocks by the Sea-side.
1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. s.v., The Rock Dove is considered to be the origin of our tame Pigeons. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 247 The white-backed or rock dove, which was long confounded with the blue-backed dove. 1889F. A. Knight By Leafy Ways 132 A party of rockdoves..settle down in a corner by themselves. |