flamingo
noun/fləˈmɪŋɡəʊ/
/fləˈmɪŋɡəʊ/
(plural flamingoes, flamingos)
- a large pink bird with long thin legs and a long neck, that lives near water in warm countriesTopics Birdsc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Spanish flamengo, earlier form of flamenco, ‘like a Gypsy’, literally ‘Fleming’, from Middle Dutch Vlaminc; associated, because of its colour, with Latin flamma ‘a flame’.
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