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Image:Phalacrocorax carbo (2005 08 28).jpg|thumb|A cormorant

Etymology
From Old French cormaran (modern cormoran), from mediaeval Latin corvus marinus �sea-raven�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�k�:m�r�nt/
audio|en-us-cormorant.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.

Translations

Chinese:
:Mandarin: zh-ts|�鶿|鸬� (lúcí)
Czech: kormorán m
Danish: skarv c
Dutch: aalscholver m
Faroese: hiplingur m
Finnish: merimetso
French: cormoran m
German: Kormoran m
Greek: κο�μο�άνο� m (kormorános)
Hungarian: kormorán
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Icelandic: skarfur m
Italian: cormorano m
Japanese: � (�, u)
Korean: ���� (gamauji)
Latin: phalacrocorax m
Norwegian: storskarv
Polish: kormoran m
Spanish: cormorán m
Swedish: storskarv

Adjective
en-adj

1. ravenous|Ravenous, greedy.

#: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.
#::— Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene 1

See also
shag

Category:Birds

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