Pigeon

Blue pigeon — an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow.

Green pigeon — any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ.

Imperial pigeon — any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada.

Pigeon berry — the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed.

Pigeon English — an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindustani.

Pigeon grass — a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds.

Pigeon hawk — A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded.

Pigeon hole — A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house

Pigeon house — a dovecote.

Pigeon pea — the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself.

Pigeon plum — the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (Chrysobalanus ellipticus and Chrysobalanus luteus).

Pigeon tremex — See under Tremex.

Pigeon wood — a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba.

Pigeon woodpecker — the flicker.

Prairie pigeon — The upland plover