cormorant
Other forms: cormorants
A cormorant is a bird that lives near the ocean and dives for fish. You can recognize cormorants by their long necks and dark color.
Cormorants live in coastal areas and use their sharp bills to catch fish. They look similar to ducks or seagulls when they float on the water, but when they hunt for fish, cormorants dive completely under water and disappear from the surface for several seconds. In Old French, the word for this bird was cormarenc, from the Late Latin corvus marinus, or "sea raven."
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large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fishsynonyms: Phalacrocorax carbotype of:pelecaniform seabirdlarge fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet
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