Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

madeiran wood pigeon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: madeiran -wood pi-geon
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon †Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.

Example Sentences

"Little can be said of the Madeiran wood pigeon except that it vanished from Madeira during the early years of the twentieth century."

Inflected Forms

Madeiran wood pigeons (plural)

Questions

What does madeiran wood pigeon mean?: An extinct subspecies of wood pigeon †Columba palumbus maderensis, that lived on the island of Madeira.

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