: any of various dark-colored web-footed waterbirds (family Phalacrocoracidae, especially genus Phalacrocorax) that have a long neck, hooked bill, and distensible throat pouch
Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age.
Recent Examples on the WebStretches of sandy beach lie on the other side of the seawall, and cormorants sit on the rocks of the stone breakwaters watching over the ferries running from New London to Orient Point.
Find the survey here: https://forms.office.com/g/ypasK4PdVy.—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024 Infected cormorants wash up on Martha's Vineyard beaches Zoos begin moving birds indoors.—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024 Simply not randomly shooting ravens, hawks and eagles, along with banning the harmful pesticide DDT, allowed many species, like eagles, cormorants and osprey, to return from the brink.—John Myers, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024 Several sleek black diving cormorants, along with an osprey, roosted in the branches during a morning visit on Thursday.—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for cormorant
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English cormeraunt, from Middle French cormorant, from Old French cormareng, from corp raven + marenc of the sea, from Latin marinus — more at corbel, marine
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