Kyyhkynen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- columba name Saint Columba of Iona, one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
- columbine noun A garden plant of the genus Aquilegia, known for its delicate, bell-shaped flowers with backward-pointing spurs.
- Dove noun A bird, typically white or grey, closely related to the pigeon and often used as a symbol of peace.
- pigeon noun A plump grey bird common in cities, known for its cooing call.
Senses
Kyyhkynen is used for these senses in English:
- Columba (constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.
- columbine (archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
- dove (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- pigeon (countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
columba — full definition
- name Saint Columba of Iona, one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
- name Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.
- name A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.
columbine — full definition
- noun A garden plant of the genus Aquilegia, known for its delicate, bell-shaped flowers with backward-pointing spurs.
- noun A school shooting or mass shooting, especially one modeled on or compared to a notorious incident.