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cormorant

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cor·mo·rant  (kôrmr-nt, -m-rnt)
n.
1. Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, a slender hooked bill, and a distensible pouch.
2. A greedy, rapacious person.
adj.
Greedy; rapacious.
[Middle English cormoraunt, from Old French cormorant : corp, raven; see corbel + marenc, of the sea (from Latin marnus; see marine).]
cormorant
Noun
a large dark-coloured long-necked sea bird [Old French corp raven + -mareng of the sea]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cormorantcormorant - large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
Phalacrocorax carbo
pelecaniform seabird - large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet
genus Phalacrocorax, Phalacrocorax - type genus: coextensive with the family Phalacrocoracidae
Translations
cormorant [ˈkɔːmərnt] n → cormorán m
cormorant [ˈkɔːmərnt] n → cormorant m
cormorant [ˈkɔːmərnt] n → Kormoran m
cormorant [ˈkɔːmərnt] n → cormorano


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What will he say when, instead of a pair of plump turtle doves, billing and cooing in a bower of roses, he finds a single lean cormorant, standing mateless and shelterless on poverty's bleak cliff?
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He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray.
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