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cormorant [ˈkɔːmərənt] n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any aquatic bird of the family Phalacrocoracidae, of coastal and inland waters, having a dark plumage, a long neck and body, and a slender hooked beak: order Pelecaniformes (pelicans, etc.) [from Old French cormareng, from corp raven, from Latin corvus + -mareng of the sea, from Latin mare sea] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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? Pepper with all his learning had been mistaken for a cormorant, and then, as unjustly, transformed into a cow. 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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