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flamingo
/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/
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What does flamingo mean?
noun
- A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.
- A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
adjective
- Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
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IPA pronunciation
/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/
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She commenced with his stuffed flamingo and wanted to know what made it so tall and what made it so red.
Among the birds are found some species now only living in cold countries, such as the snowy owl, willow grouse, and flamingo.
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Long thin clouds of flamingo red, with edges like the edges of curled ostrich feathers, lay up and down the sky at different altitudes.
And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo, hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us.
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.