cormorant Definition
cor·mo·rant (kôr′mə rənt)
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
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