passenger pigeon
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bird of the extinct species †Ectopistes migratorius, formerly endemic to North America.
Example Sentences
- "Martha was a remnant of a species that had once dominated North America; it is estimated that there were as many as four billion – yes, billion – passenger pigeons when the Europeans arrived."
- "Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback."