passenger pigeon

Questions about passenger pigeon

What is another word for passenger pigeon?

It depends which passenger pigeon you mean. In the sense “gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct”, the synonyms are Ectopistes migratorius. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of passenger pigeon?

WordNet records no antonym for passenger pigeon. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for passenger pigeon come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of passenger pigeon

• Full entry for passenger pigeonAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for passenger pigeonWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.