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CORMORANT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does cormorant mean?

• CORMORANT (noun)
The noun CORMORANT has 1 sense:

1. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish

Familiarity information: CORMORANT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CORMORANT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cormorant; Phalacrocorax carbo

Hypernyms ("cormorant" is a kind of...):

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

Holonyms ("cormorant" is a member of...):

genus Phalacrocorax; Phalacrocorax (type genus: coextensive with the family Phalacrocoracidae)

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