carrier pigeon

Alternative forms

 * carrier-pigeon

Noun

 * 1) A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.

Usage notes

 * The term carrier pigeon is often used, especially in newspaper and magazine articles, for a homing pigeon or racing pigeon that carries messages. Many pigeon fanciers (particularly homer men and homer women) consider this to be a misnomer because the term is outdated and originally referred to the ancestors of present-day Old English carriers.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: posduif
 * Arabic: حَمامَةٌ زاجِلة, حَمامٌ زاجِلٌ
 * Catalan: colom missatger
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: brevdue
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: leterkolombo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pomba mensaxeira
 * Georgian: საფოსტო მტრედი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: piccione viaggiatore
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 전서구
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: gołąb pocztowy
 * Portuguese: pombo-correio
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: golub pismonoša
 * Spanish: paloma mensajera
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: свійський голуб
 * Vietnamese: bồ câu đưa thư