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cormorant Definition

cor·mo·rant (kôrmə rənt)

noun

  1. any of a family (Phalacrocoracidae) of large, voracious, pelecaniform diving birds with webbed toes and a hooked beak
  2. a greedy person

Etymology: ME cormoraunt < OFr cormareng < corp marenc < L corvus marinus < corvus, raven + marinus, marine

cormorant Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • nest: The fishponds often hold Goosander and Smew in the winter, and there is a heronry and colony of nesting Cormorants here.
  • breed: The main interest relevant to the designation is the nationally important colony of breeding cormorants.
  • see: Indigo, the eyes of a cormorant seen in Madras.
  • include: There were good numbers of birds in the lagoon including 15 Cormorants, 100 Oystercatchers, three Common Terns and six Sandwich Terns.
  • shoot: In the case of the Estates ' application to shoot cormorants in 2006, the Executive considered these tests had not been met.
  • shag: Puffins, gulls, shags, cormorants, seals, dolphins, porbeagle sharks, and even killer whales.

Adjective modifier

  • neotropic: Apart from American Coots, we found only one female Ruddy Duck and a few Neotropic Cormorants.
  • flightless: We also had really close views of Flightless Cormorants.
  • blue-eyed: Pausing along the coast, the evocatively named Last Hope Inlet supports good numbers of smart Blue-eyed Cormorants.
  • great: Inland colonies of gulls, terns and Great Cormorants were defined by a single six figure grid reference denoting the center of the colony.
  • several: Several cormorants were fishing in the river with a group of 16 drying on the far shore.
  • long-tailed: The Long-tailed cormorant mostly prefers inland waters; slow-flowing rivers lakes swamps and ponds but is also found along coasts.

Modifies a noun

  • predation: Research findings to date show that procedures such as creating safe environments for fish from cormorant predation are not the solution to all problems.
  • population: I am also aware of the large rise in the cormorant population.
  • colony: Cormorants One of the spectacles of a visit to the Reserve is the cormorant colony, best viewed from Hayden Hide.
  • fishing: The picture depicts a scene of cormorant bird fishing, which is famous even today.
  • fisherman: China Guilin - the market place, the famous landscape of natural domes and towers, the Gui Jaing River, the cormorant fishermen.

Noun used with modifier

  • pygmy: Pygmy Cormorant is highly restricted range species, its total population estimated between 50,000 to 60,000.
  • dozen: A half dozen Cormorants congregated around the post marking the outlet pipe, occasionally diving under.

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