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Meanings of cormorant in inglés

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Medium sized, black water bird from the family of the cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae), scientific name: Phalacrocorax carbo.

        portugués
        cormorão
        catalán
        corb marí
        español
        phalacrocorax

        Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish.

              phalacrocorax
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              Usage of cormorant in inglés
              1
              The rarity is the crowned cormorant, whose pairing numbers are also increasing.
              The South African
              2
              The envoys are perceived as the cormorant reification of their remote controllers.
              Financial Crime and Corruption
              3
              Nearer, a black cormorant floated sleepily along, and dived, and rose again.
              Two Years Ago, Volume I
              4
              Nick, you're a cormorant, if there ever was one in this world!
              Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale
              5
              No one has a good word to say for the cormorant.
              The Irish Times
              6
              The cormorant figures in two places in last Friday's London Times.
              The Irish Times
              7
              Let it suffice that it is concerned with the flight of the cormorant.
              Kai Lung's Golden Hours
              8
              Then the thirteenth cormorant arose, and flew right over the island.
              Weird Tales from Northern Seas
              9
              Even the cormorant does not fish where fish are never found.
              A Maid of the Silver Sea
              10
              This species of cormorant is peculiar to the island, being found nowhere else.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              11
              Are you not afraid that he may be a black cormorant?
              The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
              12
              Saunders, you don't want to go to bed, you old cormorant.
              The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
              13
              There were few sand-banks in the river, and no water-fowl save an occasional cormorant.
              Through the Brazilian Wilderness
              14
              The egg of the cormorant is but little larger than that of a pigeon.
              A Yacht Voyage Round England
              15
              These are the celebrated cormorant fishers of the Chinese rivers.
              Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
              16
              Rita was familiar with cormorant fishing, a traditional Japanese technique.
              All You Need Is Kill
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              portugués
              cormorãobiguá
              Cormorant through the time
              Cormorant across language varieties
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