A member of the family Columbidae; any dove or pigeon.
From the taxonomic family name 'Columbidae' (from Latin 'columba,' dove) plus the noun suffix '-id.' This pattern appears in zoology—'felid' means cat-family member, 'canid' means dog-family member, and 'columbid' means dove-family member.
The '-id' suffix in biology is super useful—once you learn it, you instantly know that 'felid' = cat relative, 'hominid' = human relative, 'columbid' = dove relative, making scientific names more transparent than they seem!
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