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homing pigeon
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pigeon trained to return home [syn: homer ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A variety of domesticated rock pigeon (''Columba livia'') that has been selectively breed to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homing \Hom"ing\ (h[=o]m"[i^]ng), p. a. Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons. Homing pigeon , any pigeon trained to return home from a distance. Also called carrier pigeon . Most are bred from the domestic pigeon Columba livia . Homing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon ( Columba livia domestica ) derived from the rock pigeon , selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long distances. The wild rock pigeon has an innate homing ability, meaning ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The homing pigeon is extremely skilled at doing so. ▪ The longest flight of a homing pigeon is 11,073 miles, completed in 15 days. ▪ What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody?
Usage examples of homing pigeon.
The richness of our linguistic recall may be biologically no more mysterious than the capacity of a homing pigeon to navigate precisely over hundreds of kilometres or a dog to distinguish and remember thousands of different odours at almost infinitesimally low concentration.
A homing pigeon averaged forty miles an hour, Gunther had told her, so Margo would reach him within six hours.
Wiz was a long way from a homing pigeon and he didn't have the faintest idea where they were.
But if Arabelle can requisition the 'Homing Pigeon' when it sits on Secundus, then you can do the same on Tertius.
And yet here I was, going back to him like a bloody homing pigeon to its loft.