单词 | columbiform bird |
释义 | columbiform bird (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY columbiform bird n a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes Hypo|Hyper Raphus cucullatus, dodo extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons Pezophaps solitaria, solitaireextinct flightless bird related to the dodo pigeonwild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs sand grouse, sandgrousepigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young pouter, pouter pigeonone of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out doveany of numerous small pigeons Columba livia, rock dove, rock pigeonpale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended Columba fasciata, band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, bandtailwild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon Columba palumbus, cushat, ringdove, wood pigeonEurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck domestic pigeondomesticated pigeon raised for sport or food squaban unfledged pigeon Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeongregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct Pterocles indicus, painted sandgrousesandgrouse of India Pterocles alchata, pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrousesandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers Syrrhaptes paradoxus, pallas's sandgrouseEurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly gallinacean, gallinaceous bird heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds |
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