CORMORANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cormorant mean? 

• CORMORANT (noun)
  The noun CORMORANT has 1 sense:

1. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish

  Familiarity information: CORMORANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORMORANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cormorant; Phalacrocorax carbo

Hypernyms ("cormorant" is a kind of...):

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

Holonyms ("cormorant" is a member of...):

genus Phalacrocorax; Phalacrocorax (type genus: coextensive with the family Phalacrocoracidae)

 Context examples 

Researchers from the Department of Biology at University of Southern Denmark have tested the cormorant, Loke's, hearing.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Humans have trained a range of species to help them find food: examples are dogs, falcons and cormorants.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hearing under water must be a very useful sense for cormorants.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Both sculpin and herring are on the cormorant's menu.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

According to the biologists, it makes good sense, that cormorants can hear under water — the environment where it finds most of its food.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The cormorant also has this ability, which new research from University of Southern Denmark (SDU) shows.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)