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Cormorant

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Noun

1. cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cormorant

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noun
any aquatic bird of the family Phalacrocoracidae, of coastal and inland waters, having a dark plumage, a long neck and body, and a slender hooked beak: order Pelecaniformes (pelicans, etc)

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Cormorant

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noun
1. 
any of a family (Phalacrocoracidae) of large, voracious, pelecaniform diving birds with webbed toes and a hooked beak
2. 
a greedy person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cormorant

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n.
1. Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, and a slender hooked bill.
2. A greedy, rapacious person.
adj.
Greedy; rapacious.

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