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noun
- Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.
Translations: - Dutch: aalscholver
- French: cormoran
- German: Kormoran
- Italian: cormorano
- Spanish: cormorí¡n
adjective
- 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 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
Etymology: From Old French cormaran (modern cormoran), from mediaeval Latin corvus marinus "sea-raven".
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