资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Passenger \Pas"sen*ger\, n. [OE. & F. passager. See {Passage},
and cf. {Messenger}.]
1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. --Shak.
2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach,
steamboat, railroad train, etc.
{Passenger falcon} (Zo["o]l.), a migratory hawk. --Ainsworth.
{Passenger pigeon} (Zo["o]l.), the common wild pigeon of
North America ({Ectopistes migratorius}), so called on
account of its extensive migrations.
资料来源 : WordNet®
passenger pigeon
n : gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct [syn:
{Ectopistes migratorius}]