pigeon breast

1. 1.

   abnormal protrusion of the breastbone caused by rickets

   Synonymschicken breast

   Broaderdeformity

Questions about pigeon breast

What does pigeon breast mean?

pigeon breast means "abnormal protrusion of the breastbone caused by rickets".

What is another word for pigeon breast?

Close synonyms include chicken breast. 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 pigeon breast a common word?

pigeon breast 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.