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Turtledove

noun
1.
Small Australian dove.  Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata.
2.
Any of several Old World wild doves.





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"Turtledove" Quotes from Famous Books



... is bad. That's what our fool playwrights have done for us. In order to draw full houses they put the world upside down and call it great-souled if a woman sacrifices her children and her family to indulge her senses. I should like to live like a turtledove, too. But as long as I have been in this world I have first obeyed my duty. If after that the opportunity offered, then, to be sure, I've enjoyed life to the full. But if one does not follow one's duty, one has no right to make the least ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various


Words linked to "Turtledove" :   dove, Stictopelia, genus Stictopelia, Streptopelia risoria, Streptopelia turtur, genus Streptopelia, Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata, ringdove, Streptopelia


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