cormorant – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
cormorant
n.
voracious sea bird with black plumage; (Slang) greedy person; (Slang) glutton; voracious eater
Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a
family of some 40
species of
aquatic birds commonly known as
cormorants and
shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of
genera is disputed. There is no consistent distinction between "cormorants" and "shags", and these appellations have been assigned to different species randomly.
cormorant
Noun
1. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
(synonym) Phalacrocorax carbo
(hypernym) pelecaniform seabird
(member-holonym) Phalacrocorax, genus Phalacrocorax
Cormorant
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Cormorant
the representative in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew words kaath and shalac . As to the former, see Pelican. Shalac occurs only as the name of an unclean bird in (Leviticus 11:17; 14:17) The word has been variously rendered. The etymology points to some plunging bird. The common cormorant (phalacrocorax carbo), which some writers have identified with the shalac, is unknown in the eastern Mediterranean; another species is found south of the Red Sea, but none on the west coast of Palestine.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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