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# flamingo

«flamingo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall wading bird with long thin legs, a long bendy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a flamingo, flamingos or flamingoes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flamingo is a tall wading bird with long thin legs, a long bendy neck, pink feathers and a curved beak, that lives in big groups by lakes and lagoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#m1)

2) A plastic flamingo is a pink garden ornament, a joke symbol of fancy American gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons flamingos show how diet changes the body: they are pink because of the pink-coloured food they eat, like tiny shrimps and algae. They feed with their heads upside down, filtering water through their beaks. They often stand on one leg. A group is sometimes called a «flamboyance» of flamingos. Phrases: «stand on one leg like a flamingo», «a flock of flamingos», «pink as a flamingo».

### examples

- A flamingo stood on one leg in the shallow lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x1)
- Flamingos are pink because of the shrimps and algae they eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x2)
- A flock of flamingos flew over the salt lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x3)
- Flamingo chicks are grey and fluffy at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x4)
- The flamingo fed with its head upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x5)
- We did a balance challenge: stand like a flamingo for one minute! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x6)
- A group of flamingos can be called a flamboyance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x7)
- John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/#x8)

### note

Plural «flamingos» (also «flamingoes»). Myth: flamingos are not born pink; they turn pink from their food. Scientists are still studying why they stand on one leg; saving body heat and saving energy are two ideas.

### In the corpora

- [A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/11/)
- [Zoos add pink colouring to flamingos' food, or the birds slowly fade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/6/)
- [Flamingos get their pink from pigments in the shrimps and algae they eat; fed without those pigments, they slowly turn white.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flamingo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flamingo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.