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Definition of the noun American Flamingo

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American Flamingo is the vernacular name of the Phoenicopterus ruber, a species of Phoenicopterus.

• geographic area: Caribbean, Middle America, North America, South America

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Encyclopedia of the World's Zoos (2001)

by Catharine E. Bell

the American flamingo, the emerald toucanet, the collared aracari, the jaguarundi, the ocelot, the. ZOOLOOIco GUADALAJARA 1439.

The New American Encyclopaedia (1872)

A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge

— The American flamingo (P. ruber, Linn.) is about ...

A Carib Grammar and Dictionary (2008)

by Henk Courtz

Odontophorus gujanensis: tokoro marbled wood-quail Phoenicopteridae Phoenicopterus ruber: tokoko american flamingo Picidae wetu woodpecker wetu marakasi piculet sp. Pipridae sitarana manakin Plataleidae Eudocimus ruber: wara ...

The New International Encyclopaedia (1918)

by Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams

The North American flamingo ( Phcenicopterus ruber), once common in all the southern United States, but now grown very rare north of the Bahamas, West Indies, and Central America, is remarkable for the deep vermilion color of its plumage, ...

Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature (2013)

by Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones

For example, Plate 431, show- ing the American Flamingo, is a breathtakingly beautiful image ofa gorgeous scarlet flamingo bent over with its beak close to the ground, almost parallel to its feet, doubled over to give viewers an indication ofits ...

The Standard Intermediate-school Dictionary of the English Language (1899)

Designed to Give the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of about 38,000 Words and Phrases in the Speech and Literature of the English-speaking Peoples ... by James Champlin Fernald

A long-necked, small-bodied bird, of a £: red color, having verv long legs, webbed feet, American Flamingo, and a bent bill. V*> flange, flanj, n. A projecting rim or edge, as on a car-wheel. fVar. of flank.] flank1, flank, v.

Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language ... (1910)

Abridged from the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language by James Champlin Fernald

American Flamingo. flamingo fleer 168 fla-mtn'go.fla-miij'EO, n. Along-necked, small-bodied bird or ...

A Standard Dictionary of the English Language ... (1908)

The American flamingo (Pine m' terus ruber) occurs in ' Flo da and Louisiana; P. out mum is the common Old orld species. [Pm -.

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