flamingo

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several large gregarious wading birds of the family Phoenicopteridae of tropical regions, having reddish or pinkish plumage, long legs, a long flexible neck, and a bill turned downward at the tip.
2. n. A moderate reddish orange.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Any bird of the family Phænicopteridæ: so called from the red or flaming color. Flamingos have extremely long slender legs and neck, a relatively small body, and large head, with a heavy bill bent abruptly in the middle and furnished with lamellæ like a duck's. The feet are webbed, and the whole structure is intermediate between that of grallatorial birds, like herons and storks, and natatorial birds, like the duck tribe. They thus constitute a superfamily group, called Amphimorphæ, from the equivocal structure. There are about eight species, of which the best-known is the common flamingo of the old world, Phœnicopterus antiquorum. The red flamingo of tropical and subtropical America is P. ruber; the African species is P. minor. There are two peculiar to South America, P. ignipalliatus and P. andinus. Details of structure have caused the erection of four genera for these birds.

Wiktionary

1. n. A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae.
2. n. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
3. adj. Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo..

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any bird of the genus Phœnicopterus. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes