cormorant
[kawr-mer-uh nt]
noun
any of several voracious, totipalmate seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, as Phalacrocorax carbo, of America, Europe, and Asia, having a long neck and a distensible pouch under the bill for holding captured fish, used in China for catching fish.
a greedy person.
Origin of cormorant
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for cormorant
Historical Examples of cormorant
It was a horrible, a brutal business, a thing he had not foreseen on board the Cormorant.
The Wild GeeseStanley John Weyman
The birds comprise a darter, a cormorant, a guillemot, and a penguin.
Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, a harpy, that devours everything.
The History of John BullJohn Arbuthnot
For a few seconds the skipper of the Cormorant could not utter a word.
The Lively PollR.M. Ballantyne
In another part of that fleet, not far distant, floated the Cormorant.
The Lively PollR.M. Ballantyne
cormorant
noun
Word Origin for cormorant
C13: from Old French cormareng, from corp raven, from Latin corvus + -mareng of the sea, from Latin mare sea
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper