ringdove

American  

[ring-duhv] / ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

Or ring dove

noun

1. a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.

2. wood pigeon.

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ringdove British  

/ ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

noun

1. another name for wood pigeon

2. an Old World turtledove, Streptopelia risoria , having a greyish plumage with a black band around the neck

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Etymology

Origin of ringdove

First recorded in 1530–40; ring ¹ + dove ¹

Example Sentences

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ringdove

Far off the little owl cried; in the thick thorn-brake the lark and finches sang; the ringdove moaned; the yellow bees were flitting round the springs.

From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker

But, beneath its loose feathery garments, her body, hardly larger than that of a ringdove, is altogether out of proportion to her long, narrow head and wide-spreading talons.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees

Their coo is not in any sense tuneful; yet it has a pleasant association; for the ringdove is pre-eminently the bird of the woods and forests, and rightly named the wood-pigeon.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

It cooed and sang to him at times like the soft ringdove calling to its mate, and, at times again, it gurgled and piped like a thrush happy in the sunlight.

From Here are Ladies by James Stephens

Then, after ending his verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton