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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: cormorant (0.00993 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to cormorant.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: cormorant burung laut, dandang
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. [1913 Webster]

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