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Cormorants vs Albatross - What's the difference?

cormorants | albatross |

As nouns the difference between cormorants and albatross

is that cormorants is while albatross is .

cormorants

English

Noun

(head)

    • albatross

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
  • (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
  • (idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
  • * 2006 March 13, (Richard Lugar), speech to the (Brookings Institution),
    • energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

    Synonyms

    * (seabird) gooney bird, gooney, goonie * (impediment)albatross around one's neck

    Noun

  • an (l) (a large oceanic bird of the Southern Hemisphere )
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