Word Meanings - FLAMINGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

• BROKENBACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• BROKENBELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly. [R.]
• European
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
• BROKENBREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• Europeanize
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
• BROKENHEARTED
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
• Americanism
  Attachment to the United States.
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Flamingoes
  of Flamingo
• BROKENWIND
  The heaves.
• Americanization
  The process of Americanizing.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Flamingo
  Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
• BROKENWINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

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