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Meanings of cormorant in anglès
Medium sized, black water bird from the family of the cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae), scientific name: Phalacrocorax carbo.
Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish.
Usage of cormorant in anglès
1
The rarity is the crowned cormorant, whose pairing numbers are also increasing.
2
The envoys are perceived as the cormorant reification of their remote controllers.
3
Nearer, a black cormorant floated sleepily along, and dived, and rose again.
4
Nick, you're a cormorant, if there ever was one in this world!
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No one has a good word to say for the cormorant.
6
The cormorant figures in two places in last Friday's London Times.
7
Let it suffice that it is concerned with the flight of the cormorant.
8
Then the thirteenth cormorant arose, and flew right over the island.
9
Even the cormorant does not fish where fish are never found.
10
This species of cormorant is peculiar to the island, being found nowhere else.
11
Are you not afraid that he may be a black cormorant?
12
Saunders, you don't want to go to bed, you old cormorant.
13
There were few sand-banks in the river, and no water-fowl save an occasional cormorant.
14
The egg of the cormorant is but little larger than that of a pigeon.
15
These are the celebrated cormorant fishers of the Chinese rivers.
16
Rita was familiar with cormorant fishing, a traditional Japanese technique.
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