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Definition: Columba aenas
Stockdove
\Stock"dove`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A common European wild pigeon (
Columba [ae]nas), so called
because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic
pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the
stocks, or trunks, of trees.
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Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species, as
the Indian stockdove (
Palumb[ae]na Eversmanni).
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