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1. doves

   Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily feed on seeds, fruits, and plants. The family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. The family contains 344 species divided into 50 genera. Thirteen of the species are extinct.In English, the smaller species tend to be called "doves" and the larger ones "pigeons". However, the distinction is not consistent, and does not exist in most other languages. Historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation among the terms. The bird most commonly referred to as just "pigeon" is the domestic pigeon, which is common in many cities as the feral pigeon. Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests, often using sticks and other debris, which may be placed on branches of trees, on ledges, or on the ground, depending on species. They lay one or (usually) two white eggs at a time, and both parents care for the young, which leave the nest after 25–32 days. Unfledged baby doves and pigeons are called squabs and are generally able to fly by 5 weeks of age. These fledglings, with their immature squeaking voices, are called squeakers once they are weaned or weaning. Unlike most birds, both sexes of doves and pigeons produce "crop milk" to feed to their young, secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop.

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1. Doves

   Doves are an English indie rock band, originating from Cheshire. The band is composed of twin brothers Jez Williams and Andy Williams, and Jimi Goodwin. The members started working seriously together after meeting at The Haçienda in Manchester. Doves' unofficial fourth member is Martin Rebelski, who plays keyboards. To date, the band has released four critically acclaimed and commercially successful studio albums, and their first career-spanning compilation album The Places Between: The Best of Doves was released in April 2010.

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1. doves

   The plural form of Dove.

   There are plenty of doves in the park right now.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on July 28, 2016  

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1. doves

   Song lyrics by doves -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by doves on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce Doves?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Doves in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Doves in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Doves in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Doves in a Sentence

1. Philip Marey:

   We are currently 40 percent for September and 60 for December because there are still doubts in the corner of the doves, i think if you are going to hike rates for the first time in many years you want show a united front. If they went in September there would probably be quite a few doves voting against it.

2. Isabella Tree:

   We had 120,000 pairs of turtle doves( in the UK) when I was growing up.

3. Fox News/Hollie McKay -RRB-:

   Before ISIS, everything was green, now everything is finished, nobody gave the olive trees water. And when I see the village like this I feel there is no life here. We used to have 150 doves come to our church, too. But after ISIS, even they have not come back.

4. Idaho Dennis Lockhart:

   The more extreme characterizations of hawks and doves, where the implication is that participants on the committee want to go in entirely different directions at any given point in time ... that is not the current set of circumstances, the committee is much tighter in its array of opinion, and the differences between points of view are more nuanced and more related to sooner versus a little later on questions of policy.

5. James Liu:

   The bottom line is a June (rate hike) is still in play and even doves need to tighten at some point when the numbers start looking good, the economy is improving, things are picking up, they need to get the ball rolling on this.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Doves