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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Cormorant (0.00963 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Cormorant.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cormorant
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cormorant
cormorant
n : large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a
distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch
fish [syn:
Phalacrocorax carbo]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cormorant
Cormorant
\Cor"mo*rant\ (k[^o]r"m[-o]*rant), n. [F. cormoran,
fr. Armor. m[=o]r-vran a sea raven; m[=o]r sea + bran raven,
with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed;
or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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. [Written also
corvorant.]
[1913 Webster]
2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. --B.
Jonson.
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