(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
(2) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(3) Nearby are two wildlife refuges where flamingos and pelican nest.
(4) In three flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber), which died showing extensive necrotic inflammation of the skin of the webs and the legs, the presence of abundant mycelium and arthrospores was shown in the altered dermis and epidermis.
(5) The nesting flamingos and moulting grebes from the same water body were also infected to a great extent with these cestodes.
(6) Tina Baier, Süddeutsche Zeitung France Facebook Twitter Pinterest Greater flamingos in the Camargue.
(7) In 1974, 51 debilitated lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) were easily captured at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
(8) The English family had the equivalent of more than £1m hidden in FLAMINGO 22, a numbered Swiss account .
(9) They were horrified by my behaviour but my father paid for Pink Flamingos .
(10) The blue–green area to the east is the Salar de Surire, a salt plain containing several lakes with nesting flamingo colonies.
(11) Brandon Flowers – Can’t Deny My Love With the Killers on hiatus following their 2013 Direct Hits compilation, frontman Brandon Flowers has returned to his solo career with the follow-up to his 2010 solo debut, Flamingo .
(12) An aged male roseate flamingo, in a private collection in the British Virgin Islands, was found acutely "down."
(13) Hosts of brightly plumed birds – "flamingos and frigate-birds, falcons and deep-water albatross" – have flocked into the town, and when the narrator leans against a pillar box, trying to straighten his flying suit, an eagle "guarding these never-to-be-collected letters snaps at my hands, as if she has forgotten who I am and is curious to inspect this solitary pilot who has casually stepped off the wind into these deserted streets".
(14) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
(15) No mirage, this really is a desert oasis with warm springs irrigating lawns occasionally dotted with pink plastic flamingoes.
(16) Trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Se, Zn) were measured in nine organs (liver, kidney, breast muscle, lungs, breastbone, stomach, gizzard, spleen, feathers) of several specimens of Greater Flamingos (Phaenicopterus ruber (Pallas] and Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta (L.] from the Camargue, in the Rhône river delta.
(17) After four days of supportive therapy, the flamingo succumbed.
(18) A comparison with tandemly repeated DNA sequences in other avian species showed that several of these conserved elements were also present at similar locations within the 184-bp repeat of the Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), suggesting a great antiquity of the repeat.
(19) The impressive bird garden has an important collection of rare and endangered species as well as the more familiar flamingos and snowy owls.
(20) Nearest airport: Lisbon (120km) What to do Take a boat trip around the Sado Estuary nature reserve to spot bottlenose dolphins, flocks of white storks and, in winter, pink flamingos ( nautur.com ).
Witch
Definition:
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(n.) The stormy petrel.
(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
Example Sentences:
(1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
(8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
(10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
(11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
(12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
(13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
(15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
(16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
(17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
(18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.