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Dove is the common name for several birds in the Columbidae family.

Contents

• Birds
• People
• Places
• Extraterrestrial
• Terrestrial
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Fictional characters
• Music
• Other uses in media
• Brands and enterprises
• Military
• Science and technology
• Vehicles
• Other uses
• See also

Dove may also refer to:

Birds

• In popular usage, often refers to small columbids that are used as symbols of peace, white or gray in color
  • Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria), a domestic species that is typically gray in colour, but often bred to be white
  • Small white-feathered domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are used as release doves

People

• Dove (given name), given name in the English language
• Dove (surname), surname in the English language

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

• Dove (chocolate brand), a brand of chocolate made by Mars
• Dove (Unilever brand), a brand of soap and other personal care products by Unilever

Military

• HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
• Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission
• Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France

Science and technology

• Dove (satellite), a constellation of small Earth-imaging satellites operated by Planet Labs
• Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks
• Dove Marine Laboratory
• Dove tree
• Dove Medical Press

Vehicles

• Dove (ship), 17th-century English trading ship re-created as the Maryland Dove
• Dove (steamboat)
• de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner

Other uses

• DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), a project of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records
• Dove Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon
• Dove Publications, an American publishing house headquartered in Mineola, New York
• Dove, slang for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
• Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
• Monetary hawk and dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy
• War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
• Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain

See also

• Doves as symbols
• Doves Press
• Dovedale (disambiguation)
• Hawk and dove (disambiguation)
• The Dove (disambiguation)

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