Thesaurus: cormorant

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1. 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.
2. n. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
3. n. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
4. 1. (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, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.] 2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.
5. Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sacunder the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, andhave become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, andhence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]
6. n:100 n. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish