1) Aquatic bird 2) Bird symbolic of gluttony 3) Coastal diving bird 4) Fish-catching bird 5) French word used in English 6) Greedy insect 7) Oriental fish-catcher 8) Pelecaniform seabird 9) Phalacrocorax carbo 10) Sea bird 11) Used in Asia to catch fish 12) Voracious flier
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1) Seabird
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Compsohalieus B. Brewer & Ridgway, 1884 Cormoranus Baillon, 1834 Dilophalieus Coues, 1903 Ecmeles Gistel, 1848 Euleucocarbo Voisin, 1973 Halietor Heine, 1860 Hydrocorax Vieillot, 1819 (non Brisson, 1760: preoccupied) Hypoleucus Reichenbach, 1852 Leucocarbo Bonaparte, 1857 Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856 Miocorax Lambrecht, 1933 Nannopterum Sharpe, 1899...
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• (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. • (n.) 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, and coalgeese.
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any member of about 26 to 30 species of water birds comprising the family Phalacrocoracidae (order Pelecaniformes). In the Orient and elsewhere these ... [1 related articles]
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Cor'mo·rant (kôr'mo*r
a nt)
noun [ French
cormoran , from Armor.
mōr-vran a sea raven;
mōr sea +
bran raven, with
cor , equiv. to Latin
corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perhaps from Latin
corvus marinus sea raven.]
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The cormorant (Phalacrocorax) so named from the Latin meaning sea-crow, is a genus of birds of the Pelican (Pelicaniformes) family or sometimes forming a family by themselves. They have a longish and strongly-hooked bill, long neck, short wings, and rather long rounded tail; all the toes are united by a web, and, though excellent swimmers, they are...
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The USS Cormorant is an American Osprey Class mine hunter. The Osprey Class ships are the world's largest glass reinforced plastic (GRP) ships and are the first United States Navy ships designed solely for mine hunting. The technique used to locate mines is by high definition sonar and the mines are neutralised with a remotely controlled underwater...
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[
n] - large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish
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Phalacrocorax carbo noun large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
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Any of various diving seabirds, mainly of the genus
Phalacrocorax, order Pelecaniformes, about 90 cm/3 ft long, with webbed feet, a long neck, hooked beak, and glossy black plumage. Cormorants generally feed on fish and shellfish, which they catch by swimming and diving under water, sometimes to a considerable depth. They col...
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any of several voracious, totipalmate seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, as Phalacrocorax carbo, of America, Europe, and Asia, having a long neck and a distensible pouch under the bill for holding captured fish, used in China for catching fish. · a greedy person.
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