columbiform bird

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds Columbiformes, order Columbiformes - sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires Raphus cucullatus, dodo - extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons Pezophaps solitaria, solitaire - extinct flightless bird related to the dodo pigeon - wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs sand grouse, sandgrouse - pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young