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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of flamingo English)
WordNet
n. large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
[also: flamingoes (pl)]
See flamingo
Usage examples of "flamingoes".
The flamingoes were gone from the flat although it was still uncovered.
Looking behind him, Hawkmoon saw the scarlet flamingoes sweeping upward, their graceful fight exceedingly beautiful in comparison with the clumsy motions of the metal ornithopters that parodied them.
Soaring into the sky, the scarlet flamingoes, with their riders in their high saddles, each man armed with a flamelance, wheeled toward the brazen ornithopters.
That night after dinner we heard the flamingoes flighting in the dark.
Here live thousands of Flamingoes, although I do not know how they exist in the brackish water, — surely there are no fish here.
At night when the wind was high in the Mediterranean and the ship came down in the waves with a thump, at each wave I heard, in the dark, the Flamingoes shriek.