flamingoes
Sayfluh-MING-gohzUS/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊz/UK/fləˈmɪŋɡəʊz/
- 1Plural of flamingo.
A flock of flamingoes turned the lagoon a brilliant shade of pink.
The zookeeper fed the flamingoes a special diet to keep their feathers vivid.
Note
English spells this plural two ways, and the -oes ending is one of them; flamingos is the other, and both are accepted. It serves the wading bird and also the color noun when that is counted as distinct shades. The adjective has no plural at all, so the color describing a noun stays singular: flamingo scarves, never flamingoes scarves.
flamingoes is a form of flamingo
flamingo, noun: A long-legged wading bird belonging to the family Phoenicopteridae, in the order Phoenicopteriformes. Full entry
- Spelling
- flamingo → flamingoes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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