Definition of "cormorant" [cor•mo•rant]

• Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, a slender hooked bill, and a distensible pouch. (noun)
• A greedy, rapacious person. (noun)
• Greedy; rapacious. (adjective)

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• "When we finally struck the long-sought for pools there were no duck, leastwise, but two, and some snake-birds, as they call a cormorant here that has a neck like an"
• "The cormorant is a common visitor to our beach staging area."
• "The cormorant is a species of pelican, of a dusky color: it is sometimes called the sea crow."