homing pigeon

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a PIGEON (= a type of bird) that has been trained to find its way home from a long distance away, and that people race against other pigeons for sport

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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homing pigeon