columba

/K OW0 L AH1 M B AH0/
noun
  1. 1

    (astronomy) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.

  2. 2

    Saint Columba of Iona, one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.

  3. 3

    Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.