Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, and a slender hooked bill.
- noun A greedy, rapacious person.
- adjective Greedy; rapacious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large totipalmate swimming and diving bird of the family Phalacrocoracidæ (which see for technical characters).
- noun A greedy fellow; a glutton.
- noun A very avaricious person; a miser; a curmudgeon.
- Having the qualities of a cormorant; greedy; rapacious; insatiable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called
sea ravens , andcoalgeese . - noun A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various medium-large black
seabirds of the familyPhalacrocoracidae , especially the great cormorant,Phalacrocorax carbo . - noun A
voracious eater ; aglutton . - adjective
Ravenous ,greedy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When we finally struck the long-sought for pools there were no duck, leastwise, but two, and some snake-birds, as they call a cormorant here that has a neck like an
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The cormorant is a common visitor to our beach staging area.
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The cormorant is a species of pelican, of a dusky color: it is sometimes called the sea crow.
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The cormorant is a large black duck which feeds on fish; I perceive no difference between it
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Apparently they are wide ranging, and the double-crested cormorant, which is probably what these were, has one of the widest range and greatest adaptability of any North American cormorant.
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The cormorant is a shore bird often effected by oil spills.
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The cormorant is a shore bird often effected by oil spills.
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The cormorant is a shore bird often effected by oil spills.
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I was able to recognize "cormorant" due to the unique shape of their beaks and moderate size big to anybody who just sees pigeons,crows and fincheson a daily basis.
What is a Blog For? 2009
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I was able to recognize "cormorant" due to the unique shape of their beaks and moderate size big to anybody who just sees pigeons,crows and fincheson a daily basis.
Writing 2009
jinglebelljosie commented on the word cormorant
2. A gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person. (from Dictionary.com)
March 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word cormorant
Unfair to cormorants!
March 17, 2009
jinglebelljosie commented on the word cormorant
lol; maybe you're right, reesetee...Don't look at me, though! It was dictionary.com, I tell you! (They're prejudice against Phalacrocoracidae).
March 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word cormorant
Oh, don't worry--I wasn't directing that comment at you, Jingle. :-)
March 17, 2009
madmouth commented on the word cormorant
one of Gargantua's experimental wipebreeches
May 21, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word cormorant
See brongie.
May 10, 2011