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flamingo

  • noun
  • /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/

A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

Other meanings

  1. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

A kind of

  • wading bird

Related words

  • Andean flamingo
  • Cajun flamingo
  • Fourchon flamingo
  • Chilean flamingo
  • flamingo flower
  • flamingo shot
  • flamingo tongue
  • James's flamingo
  • lesser flamingo
  • American flamingo
  • Caribbean flamingo
  • flamingo squat

Example sentences

  • “I couldn't give a flying flamingo what your view is.”

    Tatoeba · deniko · CC0

Word history

From Catalan "flamenc".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “flamingo” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.