Usually means: Water bird, dives for fish.
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  1. cormorant: Merriam-Webster
  2. cormorant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cormorant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cormorant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cormorant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cormorant, cormorant: Wordnik
  7. cormorant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cormorant: Wiktionary
  9. cormorant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cormorant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cormorant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cormorant, cormorant: Dictionary.com
  13. cormorant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cormorant (album), Cormorant (band), Cormorant (disambiguation), Cormorant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cormorant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cormorant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cormorant: Rhymezone
  18. Cormorant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cormorant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cormorant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cormorant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cormorant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cormorant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. cormorant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Cormorant: Easton Bible
  2. Cormorant: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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noun:  Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
noun:  (figuratively, also attributively, archaic) A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
adjective:  (archaic) Voracious; aggressively greedy.

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