flamingo

noun

fla·min·go | \ flə-ˈmiŋ-(ˌ)gō

plural flamingos also flamingoes

Definition of flamingo

: any of several large aquatic birds (family Phoenicopteridae) with long legs and neck, webbed feet, a broad lamellate bill resembling that of a duck but abruptly bent downward, and usually rosy-white plumage with scarlet wing coverts and black wing quills

Examples of flamingo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lotion tubes, squirt bottles, brushes, a honey bear, solo flip-flops, a Wiffle ball and a legless lawn flamingo now stained bone-white, all provide the canvas for Riley’s patterned mariner drawings in India ink. — New York Times, 16 June 2022 But alongside the salt-air signifiers was an ethereal lavender suit, frizzy argyle sweater and shimmering flamingo-pink trousers—the sort of elevated, investment garb that would normally be alien in these parts. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 May 2022 The oldest flamingo the Sedgwick County Zoo has had lived to age 60. — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022 One recent study showed that mining was negatively correlated with flamingo populations in the Atacama, potentially due to declining surface water. — Genevieve Glatsky, Fortune, 23 May 2022 Branson—an animal lover— has been working on a project to encourage the flamingo population on the island to breed, something is done in only a handful of places worldwide. — Jordi Lippe-mcgraw, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022 Lost and found: A flamingo escaped a Kansas zoo in 2005. — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022 In March a zoo flamingo that made a wing for it during a Kansas storm in 2005 was spotted, again, on the Texas coast. — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022 An African flamingo missing from a Kansas zoo for 17 years recently was spotted out in the wild in Texas. — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2022 See More

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