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Cormorant vs Anhinga - What's the difference?

cormorant | anhinga |

As a noun cormorant

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

As an adjective cormorant

is ravenous, greedy.

As a proper noun anhinga is

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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

    anhinga

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish-eating bird, Anhinga anhinga , from North America having a thin, pointed bill and long, thin neck.
  • A bird of the family Anhingidae.

    • Synonyms

    * (Anhinga anhinga) snakebird, , water turkey

    See also

    * (wikipedia "anhinga") * (Anhinga anhinga) * (Anhinga anhinga)