| 单词 | cormorant |
| 释义 | cormorant (once / 6856 pages) n 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." WORD FAMILYcormorant: cormorants USAGE EXAMPLESCormorants gather on a light standard high above the Husky Ballpark next to the Union Bay Natural Area. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The duck-size creature looked like a cross between a sea gull and a cormorant, but with a beak full of teeth. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Cormorants dry their wings on pilings along the West Seattle waterfront. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) n large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish Syn|Hyper Phalacrocorax carbo pelecaniform seabird large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet |
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