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

Yon palace, towering to the welkin blue, Where kings did bow them down, and homage do, I saw a ringdove on its arches perched, And thus she made complaint, �Coo, Coo, Coo, Coo!�

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire; Our cottage it stood in a wood-embower'd vale, Where the ringdove would warble its sorrowful tale.

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk

A second well–polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.

From My Antonia by Cather, Willa Sibert

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 Rees, Alfred Wellesley