columba palumbus

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   Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck

   Synonymswood pigeonringdovecushat

   Broaderpigeon

   Part ofColumba

Questions about columba palumbus

What does columba palumbus mean?

columba palumbus means "Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck".

What is another word for columba palumbus?

Close synonyms include wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is columba palumbus a common word?

columba palumbus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.