cormorant

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English - Turkish
karabatak

O karabatak uçma yeteneğini kaybetmiş. - That cormorant lost the ability to fly.

yırtıcı
{i} boğazlı
l Phalacrocorax carbo
i., zool. karabatak, Phalacrocorax
{i} obur
açgözlü
karabatak kuşu
obur adam

Related Terms

pygmy cormorant
cüce karabatak
cormorants
karabataklar
English - English
Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
Ravenous, greedy

And make us heirs of all eternity.

{n} a bird of prey, glutton, miser
large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
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
A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant
A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish. a large black sea bird which has a long neck and eats fish (cormareng, from corp + mareng (from marinus; MARINE)). Any of the 26-30 species of water birds, constituting the family Phalacrocoracidae, that dive for and feed on fish, mainly those of little value to humans. In the Orient and elsewhere, these glossy black underwater swimmers have been tamed for fishing. Their guano is valued as a fertilizer. Cormorants live on seacoasts, lakes, and some rivers, nesting on cliffs or in bushes or trees. They have a long, hook-tipped bill, patches of bare skin on the face, and a small throat pouch (gular sac). The most widespread species is the common, or great, cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), which grows up to 40 in. (100 cm) long and breeds from eastern Canada to Iceland, across Eurasia to Australia and New Zealand, and in parts of Africa
They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese
{i} voracious sea bird with black plumage; (Slang) greedy person; (Slang) glutton; voracious eater
scarf

Related Terms

green cormorant
the shag
red-faced cormorant
A cormorant that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean region
A cormorant
scarf
The cormorant
sea raven
The cormorant
sea crow
The cormorant
norie
cormorants
plural of cormorant
cormorants
phalacrocoracidae
cormorant

    Hyphenation

    cor·mo·rant

    Turkish pronunciation

    kôrmırınt

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkôrmərənt/ /ˈkɔːrmɜrənt/

    Etymology

    [ 'korm-r&nt, 'kor-m&-, ] (noun.) 14th century. From Old French cormaran (modern cormoran), from mediaeval Latin corvus marinus ‘sea-raven’.
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