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Cormorant - What does it mean?

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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

    Not English

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