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Ringdove

noun

Greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged. Synonym: Streptopelia risoria.

Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck. Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon.

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"Ringdove" Quotes from Famous Books

... There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river. Out in the stream the sandbars glittered like glass, and the light trembled in the willow thickets as if little flames were leaping among them. The breeze sank to stillness. In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted. The girls sat listless, leaning against each other. The long fingers of ...

— My Antonia • Willa Cather

... verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove. When it saw him, it sang out, "O Eternal, I thank thee!" and he groaned ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Ringdove" : turtledove, pigeon, Columba, genus Columba, Streptopelia risoria