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flamingos

flamingos 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 flamingos

Questions about flamingos

What is flamingos the plural of?
Flamingos is the plural of flamingo.

Words near flamingos in the dictionary

  1. flamingo tongue
  2. flamingo tongues
  3. flamingoes
  4. flamingoesque
  5. flamingoish
  6. flamingos
  7. flamings
  8. Flaminian
  9. flaminical
  10. flamins
  11. Flamm

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