CORMORANT


Meaning of CORMORANT in English

noun a voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.

2. cormorant ·noun any species of phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. they are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.

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