cormorant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large dark diving seabird with a hooked bill

   A cormorant perched on the rocks, drying its outstretched wings.

Simplified etymology

Cormorant comes from Latin corvus marinus, meaning “sea raven,” a fitting description of this glossy black, long-necked diving bird. Since the 16th century, the word has also described an insatiably greedy person or thing.

From Old French 'cormaran', from Medieval Latin 'corvus marinus' ('sea raven'), from Latin 'corvus' ('raven') plus 'marinus' ('of the sea').

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