Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLA-MIN'GO, n. [Sp. and Port. flamenco, from L. flamma, flame.]

A fowl constituting the genus Phoenicopterus, of the grallic order. The beak is naked, toothed; and bent as if broken; the feet palmated and four-toed. This fowl resembles the heron in shape, but is entirely red, except the quill-feathers. It is a native of Africa and America. Encyc.