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flamingoes

flamingoes is the plural of flamingo.

Meaning of flamingo

Noun

flamingo (countable and uncountable, plural flamingos or flamingoes)

  1. (countable) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.
    • After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266
    Synonyms:
    phenicopter
  2. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

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Phrases with flamingoes

Questions about flamingoes

What is flamingoes the plural of?
Flamingoes is the plural of flamingo.

Words near flamingoes in the dictionary

  1. flamingo shot
  2. flamingo shots
  3. flamingo squat
  4. flamingo tongue
  5. flamingo tongues
  6. flamingoes
  7. flamingoesque
  8. flamingoish
  9. flamingos
  10. flamings
  11. Flaminian

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