PASSENGER PIGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passenger pigeon mean? 

• PASSENGER PIGEON (noun)
  The noun PASSENGER PIGEON has 1 sense:

1. gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct

  Familiarity information: PASSENGER PIGEON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSENGER PIGEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ectopistes migratorius; passenger pigeon

Hypernyms ("passenger pigeon" is a kind of...):

pigeon (wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs)

Holonyms ("passenger pigeon" is a member of...):

Ectopistes; genus Ectopistes (a genus of Columbidae)