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Commorant vs Cormorant - What's the difference?

commorant | cormorant |

As adjectives the difference between commorant and cormorant

is that commorant is (legal) ordinarily residing; inhabiting while cormorant is ravenous, greedy.

As nouns the difference between commorant and cormorant

is that commorant is a resident while cormorant is any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family phalacrocoracidae, especially the (great cormorant), phalacrocorax carbo .

commorant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (legal) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
  • * Blackstone
    • All freeholders within the precinct and all persons commorant therein.
  • (US, legal) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A resident.
    • (Bishop Hacket)
    (Webster 1913)

    cormorant

    English

    (wikipedia cormorant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the (great cormorant), Phalacrocorax carbo .
  • A voracious eater; a glutton.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Synonyms

    * (voracious eater) see

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ravenous, greedy.
  • * , Act I, Scene 1
    • Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
    Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs,
    And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
    When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
    The endeavour of this present breath may buy
    That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge,
    And make us heirs of all eternity.

    See also

    * shag