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flamingo

Best crossword clue

"Pink wader"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/Part of speech nounSorted afgilmnoStarts with FEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes

Word origin

From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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