Other forms: flamingos, flamingoes
A flamingo is a tall pink bird that often stands on one leg. A flock of flamingos, pink flamingos, the flamingo lake.
The plural is flamingos or flamingoes. The pink comes from the food — the carotenoid pigments in the algae and shrimp they filter from the water — so a flamingo fed on the wrong diet fades to white. They feed with their heads upside down, and the one-legged stance appears to cost them less energy than standing on two. Note the plastic lawn flamingo, which is a whole cultural phenomenon of its own.
1nounflamingoA tall pink bird that often stands on one leg.
“A flock of pink flamingos waded in the shallow salt lake.”
flamingo is a bird.
Portuguese flamengo comes from a word meaning flame-coloured, and the Spanish flamenco is the same word — which is why the dance and the bird share a name. Whether the dance was named after the bird is still argued about.
Catalan
flamenc — flamingo
Spanish
flamenco — flamingo
Portuguese
flamengo — flamingo
English, today
flamingo
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA