Crossword clues for flamingo
flamingo
- Pink bird
- Bird, wretched duck!
- Bird, fiery duck
- Bird needing hand to secure belt before journey
- Tall wading bird
- Long-legged bird
- Long-necked wading bird
- Long-legged shore bird
- Lawn ornament
- Pinkish wader
- Wading bird with pink and red plumage
- Long-necked, pink bird that often stands on one leg
- Long-legged pink bird
- Lawn decoration, maybe
- Broad-billed bird
- Beautiful bird
- Kitschy lawn figure
- 1984 Matt Dillon title role
- Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill
- Inhabits brackish lakes
- Hialeah bird
- Bahamian nester
- Everglades denizen
- Aquatic bird
- Winger on fire getting second of goals
- Something that's pink or bright red, a circular shape
- Short time “visiting” jug? That’s interminable bird!
- Fleetwood's first hit with one new golf ball is a flyer
- Ruddy duck is a bird
- Pink wading bird
- Pink or red bird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flamingo \Fla*min"go\, n.; pl. Flamingoes. [Sp. flamenco, cf. Pg. flamingo, Prov. flammant, F. flamant; prop. a p. pr. meaning flaming. So called in allusion to its color. See Flame.] (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Ph[oe]nicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
long-legged, long-necked brightly colored pink bird of the tropical Americas, 1560s, from Portuguese flamengo, Spanish flamengo, literally "flame-colored" (compare Greek phoinikopteros "flamingo," literally "red-feathered"), from Provençal flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
Wiktionary
a. Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo. n. 1 A wade bird of the family Phoenicopteridae. 2 A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
WordNet
n. large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
[also: flamingoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, the only family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
Flamingo is the common name for birds in the genus Phoenicopterus
Flamingo, Flamingos or Flamingoes may also refer to:
Flamingo is a plugin for the Rhinoceros 3D modelling software which adds raytracing and radiosity functionality. It is developed by the creators of Rhinoceros, Robert McNeel & Associates and sold both separately (although it requires Rhinoceros to work) and as a bundle with the Rhinoceros software.
Flamingo is a member of the adhesion-GPCR family of proteins. Flamingo has sequence homology to cadherins and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR). Flamingo was originally identified as a Drosophila protein involved in planar cell polarity. Mammals have three flamingo homologs, CELSR1, CELSR2, CELSR3. In mice all three have distinct expression patterns in the brain.
Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974, although Calder's signature on the sculpture indicates it was constructed in 1973.
"Flamingo" ( 1940) is a popular song and jazz standard written by Ted Grouya and Edmund Anderson and first performed by singer Herb Jeffries and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Other notable versions were recorded by Earl Bostic in 1951, who hit number one on the R&B chart, Charles Mingus on the album Tijuana Moods (1957) and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on the album S.R.O. (1966).
Arild Andresen, piano with guitar and bass recorded it in Oslo on March 11, 1955 as the third melody of the medley "Klaver-Cocktail Nr. 3" along with " Sophisticated Lady" and " With a Song in My Heart". The medley was released on the 78 rpm record His Master's Voice A.L. 3514. Italian singer Mina recorded it on her album " Baby Gate" in 1974.
Flamingo is the second studio album by the garage rock band The Flamin' Groovies. It was released in 1970. Following the group's departure from the Epic record label, it was the first of their two albums for Kama Sutra Records.
Flamingo is the debut solo studio album by American singer-songwriter and the Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, released on September 3, 2010 by Island Records. It was recorded at Battle Born Studios, Winchester, Nevada, and Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, California. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Flamingo is an album by flautist Herbie Mann on the Bethlehem which was recorded in 1955. The album opens with Mann playing four flutes via the use of overdubbing.
Flamingo is the name of a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the Batman.
Usage examples of "flamingo".
Lake Mead, showing me how to bait hooks, and on my last day with him, when I was five, he took me to the Flamingo for breakfast and to the Moulin Rouge for lunch.
Round the white walls ran broad divans, also white, covered with prayer rugs from Bagdad, and large cushions, elaborately worked in dull gold and silver thread, with patterns of ibises and flamingoes in flight.
Craps table at the Flamingo for a while, had walked across the street to listen for patterns in the ringing and clattering of the slots at Caesars Palace, and then had written down a hundred consecutive numbers that came up on a Roulette wheel at the Mirage.
But on the open water birds waded, ancestors of flamingos and avocets, and huge water lilies rested languidly on the surface.
Ragged holograms of hula dancers swayed in the darkness, lifesize plastic flamingoes stood among the trees, and a number of naked and half-naked couples were making love on the Astroturf, apparently unconcerned about who might be watching them.
Christmas, Madalina came to Miami Beach to play in the Rolex International Tennis Championships at Flamingo Park.
Or it might be birds that caught my attention: pink flamingoes or black swans or one-wattled cassowaries, or something smaller, silver diamond doves, Cape glossy starlings, peach-faced lovebirds, Nanday conures, orange-fronted parakeets.
The heat increased, and Griff did not relish the thought of emerging from the shade to the open country about the shallow salt lake, where the flamingos fished and water birds were thick.
A line of flamingos etched across the sky, and they passed one of the weed-grown conch boats wallowing along, exchanging hails with the island fisherman.
The survivors were camping out on the highest point of the interior, the salt plain where the lake of the flamingos had existed a week or so ago.
He continued to climb over the sun-heated rock toward the salt-floored basin, where the lake of the flamingos had once rippled.
There were hand-painted flamingos in different colors on each lime green door.
Closer to the mainland, at a place called Snake Bight, lives a flock of rare wild flamingos, pink and skittish confetti in the mangroves.
Two giggling flamingos, one fair-skinned, the other light olive, test the water with one toe each.
After Bill House went away, after the Frenchman died and the Hamiltons left to spend a year down to Flamingo, we never saw another boat along our river.