stock doveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• stock-dove
• stockdove

語源

From stock (“tree trunk”) +‎ dove, in reference to the bird's habit of nesting in hollow trees.

名詞

stock dove (plural stock doves)

1. A pigeon of species Columba oenas, found in much of Europe, in the family Columbidae.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI:

     [T]he stock-dove, unalarm'd, / Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends / His long love-ditty for my near approach.

同意語

• stock pigeon

別の表記

• stock dove
• stock-dove

語源

From stock +‎ dove, because once believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or perhaps from its breeding in the stocks (trunks) of trees.

名詞

stockdove (plural stockdoves)

1. A common European wild pigeon (Columba oenas).
2. Any of various related species, such as the yellow-eyed pigeon (Columba eversmanni) or wood pigeon.

参照

• “stockdove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.