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flamingo

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fla·min·go  (fl-mngg)
n. pl. fla·min·gos or fla·min·goes
1. Any of several large gregarious wading birds of the family Phoenicopteridae of tropical regions, having reddish or pinkish plumage, long legs, a long flexible neck, and a bill turned downward at the tip.
2. A moderate reddish orange.

[Portuguese flamengo or Spanish flamenco, both probably from Old Provençal flamenc, from flama, flame, from Latin flamma; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

flamingo
Noun
pl -gos or -goes a large pink wading bird with a long neck and legs [Portuguese flamengo]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flamingoflamingo - large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
wader, wading bird - any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
Translations
flamingo [fləˈmɪŋgəu] nflamenco

flamingo [fləˈmɪŋgəu] nflamant m (rose)

flamingo [fləˈmɪŋgəu] nFlamingo m

flamingo [fləˈmɪŋgəu] nfenicottero, fiammingo

flamingo
n flamingo
a type of long-legged wading bird, pink or bright red in colour. flamink طائِر الفلامنكو фламинго plameňák flamingo der Flamingo φλαμίγκο flamenco flamingo فلامینگو flamingo flamant פְלָמִינגוֹ flamingo, plamenac flamingó flamingo flamingói, flæmingi flamingo フラミンゴ 플라밍고, 홍학 flamingas flamings flamingo flamingo flamingo flaming flamingo flamingo фламинго plameniak plamenec flamingo flamingo นกฟลามิงโก นกสีชมพูขายาวขนาดใหญ่ลุยน้ำหาอาหาร flamingo 火烈鳥 фламінго لمبی ٹانگوں، لمبی گردن اور جھلّی دار پنجوں والا آبی پرندہ جس کی چونچ خمدار اور پر گلابی یا سیاح ہوتے ہیں chim hồng hạc


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The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.
Long thin clouds of flamingo red, with edges like the edges of curled ostrich feathers, lay up and down the sky at different altitudes.
 
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