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Definition of Flamingoes
1. flamingo [n] - See also: flamingo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flamingoes
Literary usage of Flamingoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"flamingoes are gregarious at all seasons. They are rarely found far from the
seacoasts, and their favorite resorts are shallow bays or vast mud flats which ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1890)
"IT WAS my good fortune, during February of the present year, to have an opportunity
of observing for several days the only large flock of flamingoes that ..."
3. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER IV Rio NEGRO TO BAHÍA BLANCA Rio Negro—Estancias attacked by the
Indians—Salt-Lakes—flamingoes —R. Negro to R. Colorado—Sacred Tree—Patagonian ..."
4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Hospitality.—Breakfast.—Walk along the Shore. —flamingoes. ... flamingoes and
Spoonbills.—A ludicrous Adventure.—Dissection of Birds.—Return to the Port. ..."
5. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"CHAPTER IV RIO NEGRO TO BAHIA BLANCA Rio Negro—Estancias attacked by the Indians—Salt
Lakes—flamingoes—R. Negro ..."
6. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"... natives' tradition, Baringo is far less in area than it was, owing to an
increasing drought which afflicts that part of the Rift Valley. 12. flamingoes' ..."
7. Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical by Sir James Emerson Tennent (1860)
"Preeminent in size and beauty, the tall flamingoes 5, with rose-coloured plumage,
line the beach in long files. The Singhalese have been led, ..."
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