A mainly grey Old World pigeon that frequents coastal and inland cliffs. It is the ancestor of domestic and feral pigeons.
原鸽
Columba livia, family Columbidae
Example sentencesExamples
Characteristic urban species - rock dove, European starling, and house sparrow - are currently absent from Baker Lake.
He's a member of the pigeon family which includes the familiar rock dove, and the common city pigeon, as well as the white-winged dove of the Southwest.
Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away.
The leaves disappeared from the penny only in 1967, when they were replaced by a rock dove to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of confederation.
Along with the raven and the eagle, the rock dove is ‘part of a great trinity of bird symbols for Western civilisation’.
Definition of rock dove in US English:
rock dove
nounˈräk ˌdōv
A mainly gray Old World pigeon that frequents coastal and inland cliffs. It is the ancestor of domestic and feral pigeons.
原鸽
Columba livia, family Columbidae
Example sentencesExamples
The leaves disappeared from the penny only in 1967, when they were replaced by a rock dove to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of confederation.
Along with the raven and the eagle, the rock dove is ‘part of a great trinity of bird symbols for Western civilisation’.
Characteristic urban species - rock dove, European starling, and house sparrow - are currently absent from Baker Lake.
Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away.
He's a member of the pigeon family which includes the familiar rock dove, and the common city pigeon, as well as the white-winged dove of the Southwest.