What does homing pigeon mean?

homing pigeon means "pigeon trained to return home".

What is another word for homing pigeon?

Close synonyms include homer. 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 homing pigeon a common word?

homing pigeon 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.

Homing pigeon — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
pigeon trained to return home
Synonymshomer
Broaderdomestic pigeon
Narrowercarrier pigeon

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What does homing pigeon mean?: homing pigeon means "pigeon trained to return home".
What is another word for homing pigeon?: Close synonyms include homer. 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.

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