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cul⋅ver

  [kuhl-ver]
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–noun British Dialect.
a dove or pigeon.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE culfer, culfre < VL *columbra, for L columbula, equiv. to columb(a) dove + -ula -ule
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cul·ver   (kŭl'vər)   
n.  A dove or pigeon.

[Middle English, from Old English culufre, from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula, diminutive of columba, dove.]
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