| NOUN | animal | pigeon | wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs |
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| Sounds | pih'jhahn; pih'jhihn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Adrenalin ... zeppelin / Zeppelin: 223 rhymes with ihn... | ||
| Meaning | wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs. | |
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| Member of | Columbidae, family Columbidae | doves and pigeons |
| Narrower | band-tailed pigeon, band-tail pigeon, bandtail, Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America |
| domestic pigeon | domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food | |
| dove | Any of numerous small pigeons | |
| passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius | gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct | |
| pouter pigeon, pouter | One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out | |
| rock dove, rock pigeon, Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended | |
| squab | An unfledged pigeon | |
| wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | |
| Broader | columbiform bird | A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes |
| Spanish | paloma, palomo, pichón | |
| Catalan | colom | |
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