noun. Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, and a slender hooked bill.

noun. A greedy, rapacious person.

adjective. Greedy; rapacious.

noun. A large totipalmate swimming and diving bird of the family Phalacrocoracidæ (which see for technical characters).

noun. A greedy fellow; a glutton.

noun. A very avaricious person; a miser; a curmudgeon.

Having the qualities of a cormorant; greedy; rapacious; insatiable.

noun. 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.

noun. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.

noun. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.

noun. A voracious eater; a glutton.

adjective. Ravenous, greedy.

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

"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"

harris's cormorant  shag  

pelecaniform seabird  

bustard  flamingo  frank-faced  loose-tongued  spoonbill  

coalgeese  corvorant  sea ravens