flamingos
Sayfluh-MING-gohzUS/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊz/UK/fləˈmɪŋɡəʊz/
- 1Plural of flamingo.
A flock of flamingos turned the salt flats bright pink at dawn.
Visitors watched the flamingos filter tiny shrimp from the muddy water.
Note
A plural that usually means the birds themselves, the wading family Phoenicopteridae. The color named after them mostly does without a plural (walls painted flamingo), and as an adjective it never takes one (a flamingo dress). An -s on the end is therefore a fair sign that real birds are meant. The spelling flamingoes also turns up for the same plural.
flamingos is a form of flamingo
flamingo, noun: A long-legged wading bird belonging to the family Phoenicopteridae, in the order Phoenicopteriformes. Full entry
- Forms
- flamingoflamingos pluralflamingoes plural
- Spelling
- flamingo → flamingos: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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